I received many calls, sequels to the previous column, regarding the failure of a number of talented people to achieve a number at the box office?
Stardom is a mysterious secret, what is apparent from it is very little, and it is not limited to stars of acting and singing, there is the star journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, the star novelist Youssef Idris, the star director Youssef Chahine, the star poet Abdel Rahman Al-Abnoudi, the star minister Amr Moussa, and a player The star Mahmoud Al-Khatib, the star author Osama Anwar Okasha, the star doctor Ahmed Okasha, the star scientist Ahmed Zewail, and you will also find the star butcher, the star bean seller, the star fakhani, and others, each in his field achieving a degree of glow.
It is possible to mention dozens of names that are no less important in giving, but people usually choose one star.
Director Atef Salem told me that while filming one of the scenes of the movie (Had Al Sword) in the mid-1980s, in the (Trade) Café on Mohamed Ali Street, the scene included the presence of Mahmoud Morsi with Younes Shalaby, Atef was surprised by thousands of fans storming the cafe to express their hysterical love, for Younes Shalaby And it took regarding five hours, until the police services were able to reset and connect, on the second day it was assumed that the shot of Mahmoud Morsi, only, Atef wanted to reassure Morsi, and assured him that he would communicate with one of his friends in the Interior to ensure that what happened yesterday is not repeated. Morsi said to him: The story is not worth, yesterday it was the audience of Younes Shalaby, and today the shot will pass quietly, and this is exactly what happened. The fans dealt calmly as they express their love for Mahmoud Morsi.
Professor Mahmoud Morsi is one of the most important masters of the art of acting in the Arab world, but in the cinema he did not achieve as a window star, while he was the first TV star. He even warned Najwa Fouad, the producer of the movie (The Sword of the Sword), not to use him as a hero, and he told her that you will regret it, you will not Someone cuts the ticket.
Certainly, there are very few that have combined the stardom of all artistic mediums, such as Adel Imam (cinema, theatre, television, radio), but the rule, the tyrannical stardom, is often achieved in one field, compare, for example, the name Sobhi in the theater and the name of Sobhi in the cinema, or Al-Fakhrani on television and Al-Fakhrani in the cinema.
The ability to attract is a divine gift that we do not have control over all its causes. It is born with some, and it differs in degree, and it is not necessarily absolute. It may diminish with time. Yes, the artist’s choices, his personal behavior, and the mental image he issues to people play a role, but also in a moment and without any Direct causes stardom may die, and those people were looking for yesterday, today they are fleeing from it.
Talent certainly plays a role, but it is not a starring role, and stardom is not necessarily equal with the size of talent. Adel Imam’s stardom, for example, enabled him to become the star of the first window, while Ahmed Zaki’s talent achieved him the status of intimacy among creators.
Voices like Mohamed Kandil, Souad Mohamed or Khaled Agag, have greater potential and talent than stardom, and so Kandil did not achieve part of Abdel Halim’s glow, nor did Souad Mohamed anything of Shadia’s success nor Agag a glimpse of Tamer Hosny’s glamor!
