I watched this Menahi movie (produced by Prince Al Waleed bin Talaal) and enjoyed the simple comedy about a Saudi country bumpkin getting lost in the big city. (Watch the movie below) Funny situations happening to a simple Bedouin guy struggling with modernity as he gets rich and moves to the big city leaving his nice simple life.
Saudi religious men stand near a poster of the first Saudi film "Menhai" at its opening at King Fahad Center in Riyadh yesterday. Fahad Shadeed / Reuters A few hundred Saudis braved a small band of religious hardliners to take part in a historic event on Saturday night: the first public showing of a commercial film in decades in the Saudi capital. *HERE*<http://1426.blogspot.com/2009/06/saudis-go-to-movies-even-though-saudi.html>
