Let's Hope So (Hadi İnşallah)

Let's Hope So (Hadi İnşallah)

Movie · 2014 · 9 people

The Turkish romantic comedy Hadi İnşallah ("Let's Hope So") opened on 28 November 2014. The 99-minute film is adapted from the books of a woman known online as "Pucca", a blogger turned social-media name, and draws in particular on Küçük Aptalın Büyük Dünyası. Ali Taner Baltacı directed and 25 Film produced. It was Baltacı's third feature; he had earlier co-directed Hokkabaz and A.R.O.G. with Cem Yılmaz. Murat Boz and Büşra Pekin share the leads.

The heroine, Pucca, spends four years in Ankara, breaks up with her boyfriend and returns to her family in İzmir. Heartbroken, she shuts herself in, waits for a phone that never rings and eats her feelings. Her family finds her a new job and pushes her to recover, and she reluctantly goes to a local television channel, where she meets a handsome man who will change her life. She nicknames him "Pekmez" and is determined to be with him, but a formidable rival stands in her way. The cast also includes Şinasi Yurtsever, Aydan Taş and Müjde Uzman as "Bayan Kaltak".

Murat Kaman and Emrah Kaman wrote the screenplay and Nil Karaibrahimgil composed the music. Reviewers called it an enjoyable romantic comedy, and an Arabic-dubbed version has aired on television.

DirectorAli Taner Baltacı
Production company25 Film
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Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

A light, cheerful romantic comedy. A young woman who eats her way through a break-up and goes job-hunting because her family keeps nudging her; plenty of families will recognise something of themselves here. The family setting in İzmir is warm. Still, the subject is love and relationships from start to finish, and some character names can come across as crude. Fun for teenagers and adults, not really for small children.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Hadi İnşallah is Ali Taner Baltacı's third feature after Hokkabaz and A.R.O.G., but there is no point looking here for the storytelling ambition of those films. The script leans on the most familiar skeleton of the romantic comedy: the break-up, letting yourself go, a new workplace, a handsome man and the inevitable rival. Turning the inner voice of a character born online into film language is hard, and rather than deepening that voice the film mostly gets by on light situation comedy. Büşra Pekin's comic timing is what really holds it up, and Murat Boz brings the charm the part requires. Nil Karaibrahimgil's songs suit the tone. It is pleasant to watch, but it never builds a film language that stays with you.

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

To an eye raised on the classics, Hadi İnşallah looks like a present-day relative of our old romantic comedies. A broken-hearted girl, a family trying to pull her together, a new job and a man who steals her heart: Yeşilçam told this story many times. The difference is that the humour here is louder and, in places, crude. Nil Karaibrahimgil's music adds a pleasant freshness. The İzmir setting is lovely, but the characters do not get under your skin the way they did in the old films.

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