Prominent Egyptian star Elham Shaheen is expected to compete with her self after it became certain that her two television dramas will be shown during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which is the month known to witness the largest number of television viewers. The first drama is [Bint Afandina] and she performs the role of a servant and shows her journey from rags to riches after refusing to give any concessions.
Costarring with Elham is prominent actor Abu Baker Izzat, Ryad Kholi, Ayda Riyad, and Mohammed Kareem and directed by Mohammed Mattar. The second TV drama is [Imra'a Min Nar] and costarring with her Izzat Abu Ouff, Ali Hassanein, Amir Shaheen, En’am Greitaly. In this drama, Elham performs the role of a nurse working for a rich disabled man who lost his ability to walk after being in an accident which killed his wife.
In the second drama Elham is faced with many obstacles that she must overcome on her own, which in some instances lead her to take extreme actions to protect her only son. Amir Shaheen plays the role of Elham’s son in “Imra’a Min Nar”.
Recently, Elham Shaheen was chosen to head the committee to judge movies in the Rabat Film festival held in the Moroccan city of Rabat. Movies from all over the world participated in the festival like France, Russia, Armenia, Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa and many others. Elham added that participating in such events enables her to see other cultures and watch different ways of making movies, which gives her more experience in the industry.
Elham expressed her happiness to be chosen for such an important event and commented that the films competing were overall very good. The movie that won the prize for this year was Armenian.
Elham revealed that it was very hard to decide the wining film because all the movies were done professionally and every judge had his point of view and tendency but after a long discussion they gave the grand prize to Armenia. –Albawaba.com
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