Saify (2024) on Netflix
Saify Mohamed, forty, is a trickster deep in debt who has turned to blackmail. He sells banned religious sermons from his cassette shop, supplied by Al-Mahdi, advisor to Sheikh Asaad Aman.
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Plot summary
The year is 2000. Saify Mohamed deals in cassette tapes at a dilapidated music shop, and among his stock are banned Islamic sermons he believes will earn him an illicit profit. He is a confidence trickster with poor business skills who owes money to everyone around him, his ex-wife among his creditors, and he has lately turned to blackmail as well. The sermons reach him through Al-Mahdi, a shady religious advisor to Sheikh Asaad Aman, a local bigwig known as a philanthropist. One tape in the shop carries a recording that compromises the sheikh, and Saify believes his chance has finally come.
