02:24 PM Saturday February 10, 2024
Written by Mona Al-Moji:
The past few hours witnessed a state of controversy on social media after the artist Hamdi Al-Wazir appeared on billboards for the “Like in Cake” campaign, in which the nature of the product it is promoting has not been explicitly revealed yet.
Some criticized the participation of the artist Hamdi Al-Wazir and his appearance performing his famous movement, which he performed in the movie “The Fist of the Crescent,” which was shown in 1991, and it is widely circulated to this day on social networking sites, indicating that it symbolizes harassment.
Among the comments from the public who described the campaign as inappropriate: “Imagine this, when you and your son are walking in the street and you find your son asking you, ‘Do you, Dad, have any of the cake or not? And you don’t know what to say in response?!’ How do you walk with your wife or daughter and see in front of you?” An advertisement like this, and the picture of Hamdi Al-Wazir confirms the intention of the inventor of the advertisement.”
Hamdi Al-Wazir, the hero of the advertising campaign, is one of the most important actors. His talent is praised by audiences and critics alike. Despite his long artistic history, there are those who do not know him, especially among the new generations. In the following lines, we review the most important information about him.
– He was born in Port Said Governorate, and studied engineering.
– In his meeting with Her Excellency, he described himself as a tramp, explaining, “I am a tramp in the philosophical sense, and I search for knowledge in various fields.”
One of his brothers is Hassan Al-Wazir, a famous theater director. Hamdi described him in a previous television interview as one of the most important directors of Egyptian theater.
– He is also the brother of the artist Abdo Al-Wazir, and he said about him, “Abdo is a good actor, but it is a shame that he is sitting.”
– He confirmed more than once that his famous look in the movie The Crescent Fist, which some consider to be a symbol of harassment, was not of a woman in the first place, and he said, “The police during the events took me after I had hit someone, broken him, and he was lying in a hospital. He brought me to get to know me. The director said, ‘You will look at him.’” And she threatened him with a look. I looked at him and found Youssef Mansour giving a strange reaction. I was laughing, and because it was not funny, I made this famous move very simply.
Among the most famous films in which he participated are: Al-Khasheba, Al-Harif, The Giant, A Man Lives Once, Days in the Halal, The Usurpers, The Goblins, and The Crescent Fist.
He participated in a large number of series, including: Raafat Al-Hagan, Al-Abtal, Winds of the East, Al-Bahar Mandi, A Security Status, and The Epic of Musa.
– He was absent from art for a period, and about it he said, “Art is a great pleasure for me, and I was keen to learn during the period of absence, study, and watch a lot of films,” stressing that he benefited greatly from it.
He wrote a series called Ghareeb El Dar, and confirmed that it was one of the most important works he wrote. The work was directed by Youssef Sharaf El Din, starring: Tariq Lotfy, Rogina, Ahmed Abdel Aziz.
– He wrote a film called The Harasser, and about him he said in his interview with “Her Excellency”: “A comedy film, sold at festivals. I do not defend the harasser. He is a human being, and this issue is human. We ask the question: How do you assault your relative, your friend, or your lover? The film contains an incident.” He harasses a woman and the harasser is the one who defends her.”
– He said in an interview with DMC channel with media personality Iman Al-Hosary, that he participated in the No to Harassment campaign following an incident that occurred in the center of the country with a group of young people, adding, “Harassment is an extremely dangerous societal issue and everyone must participate to resist this inhuman behavior to eliminate this very ugly phenomenon.” “.
Regarding the movie The Rapists, he said on the “Cairo Today” program: “My car was in front of the cinema, and when I was leaving, I found a boy doing a karate move and breaking the glass. He hated me with an extraordinary hatred, and at the time the movie was showing, I was in a hotel and a woman entering the elevator saw me, went out, voted, and left.”
In a previous interview with “Masrawy”, he said that he formed the first popular resistance faction in Port Said in 1967, then he joined the army, although he had a letter of postponement, but he was determined to join the army, adding, “Corporal recruit Ahmed Sayed Ahmed Thabet became the minister, known as Hamdi al-Wazir.” “The youngest soldier in the armed forces in 1968, and this is a statement documented by the state.”
He participated in the War of Attrition and the 1973 War.
– He went through a major health crisis in the last period, and described it as a difficult period, and about it he said on the “Bold Line” program: “An epic that I do not like to remember, but praise be to God, he helped me recover. I have maintained my body and stopped smoking cigarettes for a long time, and they discovered a problem in the aorta and it entered Intensive care and then operations for 7 hours.”
