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THE EGYPTIAN actress Yasmin Abed Al Aziz started filming the new movie Al Dada Dodi (Dodi the Nanny), by the production company Melody Pictures. This is her first leading role.

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Published: Sat 26 Jul 2008, 1:29 PM

Last updated: Wed 12 Jul 2023, 2:21 PM

According to the London daily Elaph, Al Dada Dodi is written by Nader Salah Al Deen and directed by Ali Idris.

The new film is distributed by Hisham Abed Al Khaliq. A number of actors will be starting with Yasmin, like Salah Abdulla, Edward, Yousif Dawood, Samih Hussein, Hasan Mustafa and three sets of twins, six children.


The film crew travelled to Alexandria for ten days to film the outside scenes at the Marina.

The actors took 10 days to finish the filming in Alexandria and then returned to Cairo to film the scenes that include the children. The filming took place in Cairo in one of the villas in the October 6th City and in a villa in the Mansouryeh area of Egypt.


The budget for the new film is 10 million Egyptian pounds and the story revolves around a young woman who steals cell phones for a living. She accidently gets involved in a murder and flees to Alexandria to hide. In Alexandria she ends up working for the police chief as a nanny.


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