No song or cinema will rise in which Muhammad Ramadan

In the past few hours, Egyptian star Mohamed Ramadan’s name has come back to the fore after Egyptian musician Helmy Bakr attacked him, accusing him of corrupting public taste.

Bakr said in a statement to local media that the state of song in particular and art in general has reached a bad level, blaming some stars who have abandoned their roles in promoting artistic responsibility.

He also continued: “Unfortunately art is currently in its worst stages, and there are other things that occupy artists far from presenting respectable art,” considering that some of them seek to emulate festivals. looking for “pop” and nothing more.

“Corrupt public taste”

He called what Ramadan offers as content, whether in terms of song or cinema, as not being art, stressing that it is a kind of “corruption of public taste” .

He stressed that neither song nor cinema will increase as long as its hero Muhammad Ramadan, or as he calls himself “Number One”.

Musician Helmy Bakr

Elsewhere, Helmy Bakr also criticized the position of certain artists, whom he described as indolent towards their role in art, saying: “Where are the singers and singers supposed to be an extension of the generation of the great ”, and cited by name the Syrian artist Asala and the Egyptian artist.

Bakr accused the artists of being preoccupied with other issues such as personal issues, entrepreneurship, imitation of the festival wave and the like, and held them accountable for the state of the art in recent times, according to him.

It should be noted that the Egyptian star has been the subject during the last period of sharp criticism, and the crises have followed one another, starting with his crisis with the pilot Ashraf Abu Al-Yusr and its repercussions, especially after the death of the latter, then the feuds with the media Amr Adib, who reached the corridors of justice, and the give and take with the family The late artist Ismail Yassin, then a clothing tailor, confirmed that he worked with the “No 1” without receiving a salary, the latest of which was the accusation of actress Samira Abdel Aziz in Ramadan for insulting her after refusing to appear in a series featuring him.