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Hikayat Shama
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Hikayat Shama actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Hikayat Shama reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
The series revolves around Shama, a young orphan who finds herself responsible for her home and crops after her father leaves for the Hajj pilgrimage. Her life changes when she is unjustly accused of cheating in the market. She defends herself before the governor by telling an eloquent story that reveals The truth is, because of her intelligence, the tribal chief appoints her as a storyteller in his council, which arouses the jealousy of his assistant, Jaafar, who begins to plot to distort her image, so Shama engages in a struggle sometimes with intelligence and sometimes with the power of storytelling to confront the harshness of reality.
Behind the series
Created by
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The craft
Key Crew
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Writing
- Ahmed NtamaWriter
Direction
- Sana AkroudDirector
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