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Abuzer Kadayıf

Abuzer Kadayıf

Movie · 2000 · 12 people

From a screenplay by Kandemir Konduk, Tunç Başaran directed the 2000 Turkish film Abuzer Kadayıf. Combining comedy, musical and drama, it opened in cinemas on September 29, 2000. Hüseyin Apaydın produced it for Replik Ajans, Ali Utku was the cinematographer and Özkan Turgay supplied the music. Metin Akpınar stars, playing a double role.

The hero, Ersin Balkan, is a lecturer at a college and is known as a successful, respected man. His life collapses when his pregnant wife is killed by glue-sniffing street children. Balkan wants to set up a training center to free such children from addiction and bring them back into society, but sees that his salary of 360 million lira cannot pay for it. He finds his answer in becoming a singer and, as Abuzer Kadayıf, soon earns a great deal. The fame that comes with villas, cars, films and clips lands him in trouble with the mafia.

Metin Akpınar plays both Ersin Balkan and Abuzer Kadayıf. Sibel Turnagöl plays Ece, Talat Bulut is Abdo (Abdullah), Özlem Savaş is Ceyda and Aziz Üstel is Fahrettin Abi. Macit Sonkan plays the mafia boss.

DirectorTunç Başaran
Production companyReplik Ajans
Abuzer Kadayıf Abuzer Kadayıf

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Also in the cast: Şebnem Özinal, Sibel Turnagöl (Ece), Özlem Savaş (Ceyda), Aziz Üstel (Fahrettin Abi)

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AI-assisted editorial takes written from different viewer perspectives. They are not reader reviews; those are below.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Watching Metin Akpınar as both a respected lecturer and a famous singer in the same film is a feast for anyone who admires his craft. At the heart of the story is a well-meaning man who turns to singing to free street children from addiction, and that moral center recalls the warmth of the old films. But the effort to hold comedy, musical and drama together muddles the tone at times; the leap from a painful opening to fame and trouble with the mafia may not convince everyone equally. Akpınar's double role, as lecturer and singer both, is what stays with you in this film.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

There is comedy and there are songs, but the start is very heavy: the hero's pregnant wife is killed by glue-sniffing street children. So it is not suitable for young kids. Later he gets into trouble with the mafia. Topics like addiction and street children can be discussed with high-school teens. Metin Akpınar as a singer will make the grown-ups laugh.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Abuzer Kadayıf sets two familiar realities of Turkey in 2000 side by side: street children's addiction and an entertainment world where fame brings money fast. A lecturer who cannot fund a training center on his salary of 360 million lira and turns to singing instead shows, with irony, the gulf between what knowledge is worth and what pop culture pays. The salary figure alone is a reminder of the high inflation of the time. Because it handles these issues inside a comedy-musical, it cannot go very deep, but bringing street children into a mainstream film is notable.

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