"Pershama" Reaches Critical Milestone with Opening Weekend Box Office

The star-studded comedy film "Pershama" has achieved a new impressive milestone by recording the highest opening weekend in the history of Egyptian cinema, collecting 800,000 in ticket sales in its first week.

Last Sunday, the satirical social comedy surpassed "Welad Rizk 3" as the highest single-day box office revenue in Egyptian cinema.

It amassed the highest daily revenues in Egyptian cinema history by grossing EGP 23,204,862 in one day.

The film features an ensemble cast that includes Hesham Maged, Riham Abdel Ghafour, Bassem Samra, Mostafa Gharieb, Hatem Salah, Arefa Abdul Rasoul, and more.

"Pershama" boldly tackles the issue of cheating in exams, a known phenomenon around the world.

The synopsis reads: "In a high school exam, the supervisor dies mid-test, and the students try to hide it… hoping to cheat. Only problem? Nobody knows the answers. Among the chaos are a top student obsessed with being proper, the mayor’s hopelessly dumb son who must pass at any cost, a dancer chasing a diploma to work abroad, a sixty-year-old woman chasing a pension boost, and a former criminal desperate to pass so he can marry. Absurd schemes, nonstop chaos, and wild laughs turn this exam into a hilarious disaster.

Khaled Diab directs the pic from a script he co-wrote with Sherine Diab and Ahmed El-Zaghbi.

Ahmed El Desouky produced the project alongside SkyLimit Studio, Film Square Productions, and Big Time Fund.