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Reviewing Ramadan's Drama Opening Sequences, Who Is The Best?


Wed 20 May 2020 | 02:20 PM
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Yasmine Farraj

The Opening sequences of Egyptian Ramadan series for season 2020 varied between songs and music, some impressed the audience and went viral on social media. Yasmine Farraj is a music critic professor at the Higher Institute for Art Criticism, analyzed the sequences and music of these artworks.

Dr. Farraj explained that this Ramadan season series have reached nearly 27 series, with their sequences split into:

1- Musical Opening sequences:

While the musician Khaled Hammad used in ''Valentino'' series orchestra to perform the melody using two musical ideas, the melody appeared, especially it's ending soon, from some melodies of international films in the 60th or Disney movies.

As for the series "The End", the musician Hisham Khurma succeeded in drawing attention with a melody that seemed low-cost and deeply influencing, achieving his goal in his 1st dramatic work, through a simple theme in mixing between contemporary and rock rhythms.

Karawan

Controversial sequences: Musician Tamer Karawan used the military march in the “el ikhtiar" series among three melodic lines, the second of them is sometimes spirited and sometimes tense, by means of lathe and wind instrument and string with an innovative rhythm line using slavery and “oud”.

Meanwhile, Karawan repeated some of the musical themes that he previously presented, so the "el ikhtiar" appears close to the series "zaat", "Bab Al-Shams" and "Al-Madinah" movie, using the same musical stand and oud.

The series "Layalina 80" for the late artist "Warda" and the genius composer "Bilge Hamdi", the melody that the musician "Hani Mhanna", transformed with the possibility of being influenced by the music theme in the 80th. Specifically, the music of the famous series "Layal Helmiyya", because of the accordion instrument, so that the listener feels that the original melody got lost.

Amr Diab

As for the 1st mystery prize, let’s see the actress Dina El-Sherbiny's series “The Oblivion Game” which produced by the company "Nay", owned by the artist Amr Diab.

Ramadan series's songs:

Dr.Farraj considers that the singers of the Ramadan series this year were unsuccessful in their choices, especially since they are big stars, the audience memorizes their previous series and knows the difference between them.

As the poet Amir To'eima had the largest share of Ramadan by writing 4 works.

In addition to the great singer Samira Said, who did not shine in "When we were young" series, As well as Angham, Medhat Saleh and Haitham Shaker their songs were not good too.

As for the singer Nawal Al-Zoughbi , in the Sultana Al-Mu’ez song, which was written by Tamer Hussein and composed by Tamer Ali and distributed by Ahmed Ibrahim, it was not a powerful song like “the highest price” series which was a great success.

The success of the song "Millionaire" can not be ignored, The Opening sequences of "by 100 faces" series that have a powerful and cheerful "festival music", Suitable for the story of the heroine who lives in a random neighborhood.

Top 2 works:

1- "Ahed betrayal" series: A touching, influential, humanistic titer suitable for the series theme, which was written by Medhat al-Adl and composed by Amr Mustafa and by Nader Hamdi, the singing of "Mustafa Hajjaj", who performed well.

2- “Fatwa”: The idea of using of Hijaz shrine at the beginning of the song for popular artist Ahmed "Shaybah", is very good, while the song ends with Nahawand's, which gave a good audio effect.