Blue Elephant.. Highest Movie in Egyptian Box Office History

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The Blue Elephant cemented its place as the highest movie in Egyptian Box Office history, surpassing the 100 million mark, reaching 103 million Egyptian Pounds in it’s 20 week showcase. The Film stars Karim Abdelaziz, Hend Sabry, Khaled El-Sawy, Nelly Karim and Eyad Nassar.

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The Blue Elephant is centered around psychiatrist Dr. Yehia Rashed (Karim Abdel Aziz), who returns to his job 5 years after the death of his loving wife and daughter.

Filled with grief for his loss, Yehia resorts himself to drugs, drinking and gambling. But then he receives a warning from work and returns to his duties in El-Abbaseya psychiatric hospital where he is assigned 8 Gharb, a special department for mental patients who are also criminals.

There, a surprise awaits him that turns his life upside down. Yehia’s return coincides with the arrival of a former old psychiatrist friend, Sherif Al Kordy (Khaled El Sawy), a patient accused of brutally killing his wife.

Hoping to find out the truth behind Sherif’s case, Yehia begins a journey of locating clues, investigating the crime scene and gathering as much information from Sherif’s younger sister Lobna (Nelly Karim), Yehia’s first true love.

While he tries to unravel the many mysteries surrounding his friend, Dr. Yehia gets sucked into a sea of hallucinations, magic spells, numbers and demons, swirling around a tattoo parlor and a blue pill that bears the print of a six-legged elephant.

For Yehia, the secrets behind the pill The Blue Elephant helped him enter the gateway of another world to uncover the demonic sources behind Sherif’s crime.

Part two of the Movie centers around Dr. Yehia, who is now married to Lobna, meeting a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital. He emphasizes the fact that the death of his entire family is just only three days away.

Yehia then uses the blue elephant pills in an attempt to control things and solve the puzzles he faces, as he must now face the same demonic entity from the first movie.