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They're both desperate for big roles, and as they keep meeting up at the same casting calls, they become friends, and eventually (of course) fall in love. He's Salmawy, a poor guy from Tanta who just wants to make it big in the big city, and she's the girl with no place to call home. She and Ashraf play wanna-be actors on the trail to fame. Here she shows that she can play the siren with a heart of gold as well as the best of them.

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Yasmine is the face anyone who's watched TV in Egypt over the past five years knows by heart from nearly a million yogurt, washing machine, and juice ads. To help him out, he's brought in a loveable former ad girl, Yasmine Abdel-Aziz, and decided to go for the light romantic comedy, supported by the heavy marketing campaign. With “Rasha Garea,” Ashraf is determined not to make the same mistakes of “Ashyak Wad fi Roksi” (The Chicest Boy in Roxy), his major flop of a few years ago. Whenever he did get the chance to star, his films never seemed to make it big at the box office, said the cairolive report. Over the past few years, Ashraf watched as his compatriots, comics from his same generation, like Ahmed Adam, Alaa Walieddin, and, most famously, Mohamed Heneidi, skyrocketed to mega-stardom, while Ashraf himself hardly advanced past the supporting roles.

“Rasha Garea (Daring Genorisity) is like an old car that you like very much despite its faults: it is always slow to start, but is a constant reminder of the good old days.” Ashraf Abdel-Baki, the film's star, told.

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