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A weekly update on your favorite Ramadan TV shows
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Wagh Al-Qamar
The critics have really been sharpening their claws on Wagh Al-Qamar, with one critic likening the extensive use of soft focus in scenes where Faten Hamama appears to the kind of fog that causes car crashes. Despite the validity of this critique, Hamama herself shines in her role as the iron lady with the frayed nerves, constantly being put in tough situations and surviving. One hopes she can keep her chin up amid the offensive things being written about her in the press. One nasty headline in Sawt El-Umma announced, "Face of the Moon: Expiration of a Big Star".
Wagh Al-Qamar is also being criticized for being far too preachy, trying to teach us a lesson in every episode. The same Sawt El-Umma article called it an "educational channel show that had gotten lost along the way and ended up on channel 1."
People have also been talking about Ahmed Ramzy, the hunk of yore, who plays Hamama's long-lost husband. I've heard so many people say they "feel sorry for him" that the comment seems to have been put in people's molokhiya at iftar. "He shouldn't be acting the Romeo at his age," they say, "he has no teeth, he can't even talk." Come on the guy isn't doing too bad, and when he smiles, the old Ahmed Ramzy does appear, if only briefly.
Hassan Hosny, who plays Mustafa's lawyer, has also been putting in a very solid performance., and Gamil Ratib did well as Karim. The same can't really be said of the younger members of the cast.
Overall, Wagh Al-Qamar was a good effort, and although it wasn't an edge of your seat kind of show like Awan Al-Ward is, the storyline and the mere presence of such veteran as Hamama and Ramzy made it worth watching every night. Plus, the director managed to tie it all together in the final few episodes, and actually left us with a satisfied lump in our throats at the end.
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