“Silent Mr. Mayor” reported in Gulf newspaper.

When you read the name of Ibrahim Issa in the authorship, you expect that there will be thorny issues that the series will address, and that it will shed light on sensitive social issues, especially those related to women. This is what we expected to see in the series “Hazrat Al-Omda”, especially since it bears a difference from its title, because the mayor is a woman embodied by Ruby, so how will the content be, and is it as hoped?
In terms of content, Issa placed a group of social and feminine issues in one basket, which are sufficient to make any work successful, if the scenario, directing, acting and filming are at the same level of importance as these issues: underage marriage, circumcision, the hypocrisy of society, the fear of breaking even traditions. And if it was wrong, the role of women, the ossified ideology, the terrorist ideology, what customs and traditions must be preserved, and what must be changed..? And of course, greed for power, conflicts, and revenge.. Why did the series not top the list of the most watched on social media, and is it not trending in Ramadan?
The reason is that the writer tried to say everything without delving into any of the issues, so you feel that he did not say anything, just issues clinging to a superficial approach, and the director Adel Adeeb presented an ordinary, stereotypical drama, and among the important observations that the viewer touches easily, and the director bears responsibility for it , that there is no harmony in the performance of the actors, as if he left them the freedom to present the character as they wish, so the one and harmonious spirit was lost in the work, despite the presence of experienced and competent stars: Samiha Ayoub, Lotfi Labib, Salah Abdullah, Ahmed Rizk, Basma, Ahmed Badir, Dina , Muhammad Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Mahmoud Abdel-Moghni, Edward, Mahmoud Hafez, Ehab Fahmy, and others .. Beside, of course, the heroine of the series, the leader of the poster and the scene, and she is the woman who bears the title and position of “His Excellency the Mayor”, Ruby, who, as they say in Egypt, “They are all com and she com».
Ruby in this series is just a performer of the role of Safia, a psychologist who became the mayor, all the time she walks, moves and speaks as if she is a programmed machine, frozen, cold, her emotions are insincere, it appears clearly that she is acting, not convincing, she moves from one place to another so you feel as if you are You see and hear the director calling “Action”, so she goes out emptying her stomach until her turn ends. She embodies the role of a woman who breaks some traditions and routines, so she agrees to be chosen, by her grandmother and her cousins, to be the mayor, so that the “Amoudia” does not go from her family to another competing family with them, and she is satisfied with living in her town, so she begins to discover problems and tries to solve them with the law.
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