The Egyptian actress Yasmin Abed Al Aziz started filming the new movie “Al Dada Dodi” (Dodi the Nanny), by the production company “Melody Pictures.” This is her first leading role. 
According to the London daily Elaph, “Al Dada Dodi” is written by Nader Salah Al Deen and directed by Ali Idris. The new film is distributed by Hisham Abed Al Khaliq.
A number of actors will be starting with Yasmin, like Salah Abdulla, Edward, Yousif Dawood, Samih Hussein, Hasan Mustafa and three sets of twin six children.
The film crew traveled to Alexandria for ten days to film the outside scenes at the Marina. The actors took 10 days to finish the filming in Alexandria and then returned to Cairo to film the scenes that include the children. The filming took place in Cairo in one of the villas in the ‘October 6th City’ and in a villa in the ‘Mansouryeh’ area of Egypt.
The budget for the new film is 10 million Egyptian pounds and it is scheduled to be released by “Eid Al Adha Al Mubarak.” (Happy Eid Adha)
The story of the film revolves around a young woman that steals cell phones for a living. She accidently gets involved in a murder and flees to Alexandria to hide. In Alexandria she ends up working for the police chief as a nanny.
© 2008 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)
