Saudi Action Comedy SATTAR Wrestles To Box Office Fruition. Check Out The Trailer!
Currently enjoying a run in Saudi Arabian cinemas is Sattar, the latest action comedy blazing a trail for cinema in the region from director Abdullah Al Arak. The film stars Saudi actor and stand-up comedian Ibrahim Al Hajjaj and serves as the launchpad for Tefaz11’s AlShimaisi Films who produced the pic alongside Muvi Studios.
Saad, a young man who loves professional wrestling, gets excited when EEW, a professional wrestling promotion, announces that they’re holding auditions in Riyadh. Saad goes to the audition hoping to become a Saudi wrestler and then start his global journey from Riyadh to success. He fails in the auditions conducted by EEW, but his luck has not completely run out as he meets Ali Hogan, an eccentric man who offers to be Saad’s manager and promises to change his life. Saad, with the help of Ali, joins smaller wrestling promotions in Riyadh, filled with different Saudi wrestlers, all with their own gimmick, in hopes of one day being good enough to join EEW and live out his dreams.
As of reporting via Deadline on Monday, Sattar is currently the highest-grossing film of all time in the territory surpassing Avatar: The Way Of Water, following its release on December 29 from Front Row Arabia after screening for Red Sea International Film Festival in the same month. The film is slated to release in the rest of the Gulf on January 19.
Check out the film’s teaser and official trailer content below!
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