The series “Omar Affandi” is published by Google search engine and YouTube, and the trend is published by social media platforms, where the series is considered a fantasy and comedy Cairo between the Forties and 2024.
A young man discovers a basement in his father’s old house, in which a portal enters him into the distant past, so he finds himself in the Forties of the last century, and lives unexpected events between the Forties and 2024, a fantasy and comedy carried by the social drama “Omar Effendi” by Mustafa Hamdi, directed by Abdulrahman Abu Ghazaleh, starring Ahmed Hatem, Rania Youssef, and Aya Samaha, which began screening this week to quickly top social media platforms, and achieve high views, as Shahid’s digital platform is also broadcast on The channels network.
The events start from the story of Ali Tohami, a young thirtysomething married to the daughter of a billionaire man with whom he is constantly at odds, and upon the death of his father, the submerged painter, who was separated from him for a while because of the latter’s rejection of his marriage, he goes with the aim of selling his father’s old house, where he discovers a secret crypt in it, leads him to another time, so he goes back to the Forties of the last century, during the English occupation of Egypt, and finds a portrait of his father, and it turns out that his father’s house was once- In its first episodes, the series observes, through a short first visit, the paradox between two times, the Forties and 2024, followed by visits, discoveries, a love story, problems and confrontations in order to find out the secret of the crypt that connects the two times.
The events of the first episodes of the series witnessed the review of the life of a modern young man named “Ali Tohami/ Ahmed Hatem”, who belongs to the middle class, and is involved in a social conflict with the family of a girl he loves, where the girl belongs to a higher social class and looks down on him.
Events take an exciting dramatic turn when his father dies suddenly, and while attending the funeral he discovers that there is a secret passage “crypt” in his house that leads to another world, which is the world of Old Cairo in the Forties period, he enters this passage and finds himself in the middle of historical events and mysterious characters about which he knows nothing.
Ali is wounded by a bullet in his arm by unknown persons in an attempt to kill a young English officer, but he was injured by mistake, and Ali/ Ahmed Hatem wakes up in the House of “diasti/ Mustafa Abu Sarei”, who saved him after being hit by a bullet from the English, and diasti deals with “Ali” as a hero, and diasti lives in “Dalal pension/ Rania Youssef” and her daughter “Zeinat/ Aya Samaha”, and when he descends on diasti, he discovers on the photo of his father on Dalal and Zeenat try to find out if Ali knows any information about him because he is her husband and disappeared for a while, and Ali feels shocked, especially since he found out that Zeenat is his father’s daughter.
Abaza/ Mahmoud Hafez enters Zeenat and asks for the seal she stole, but the latter puts it in Ali’s pocket, and asks him to get out of the pension, Abaza searches her bag and finds nothing, and decides that his name in the past should be “Omar” after the name of the then famous “Omar Effendi” shop, and asks diasti to go with him to a “suspicious house” in the area, which he came from through the secret passage, and indeed he succeeds in returning to the present and tries to convince his wife of what happened to him, but she does not she believes him, and he tries to reveal to her about his wound, but finds no trace of him, and he begins to search for his father’s past and discovers that he painted a portrait of a Dalal and sold it to a friend of his as a drawing by a Jewish artist in the Forties.
He reads ” Ali ” a lot in the idea of time travel, and decides to return to the Forties again, where he meets Zeenat, and diasti decides to invite him to stay with him in his room at the Dalal pension, and Magi discovers her husband’s absence, so she searches for him at home, but she does not find him, so she communicates with his friend and tells her that Ali is with him, but he is busy, and she calls back on the number to answer his wife and discovers his friend’s lie and her suspicion of her husband’s infidelity increases.
Egyptian art critic Magda Khairallah praised the quiet infiltration of the Omar Effendi series, which ” gives the most space to the years of the Forties and influential characters, “adding that the series is an”ideal model for the universe of comedy that depends on the ingenuity of drawing situations.
Khairallah added: “We are waiting for funny people every day, despite the strangeness of their story, which revolves in two times at the same time, through Ali (Ahmed Hatem), who lived his life in disagreement with his father, the Czech artist, but after his death he tries to understand the reasons for his father’s distance from him, so the search leads him to a crypt that crosses to a different time dating back to the art of the Forties, and begins to get to know the world in which his father lived.
