Remember that cool Oran Gencebay clip I posted a couple months ago? Turkish singers are the sultry best! Since I don't understand Turkish (I did however teach myself over 100 words in Turkish during a 3-week visit), I didn't have any hard facts for you about this film or the singer.
Lucky us, though. Soner wrote me with this wealth of information about Gencebay and Aski Ben Mi Yarattim, the film this clip is from. It's super interesting:
Let me give some details about the video you post. It's a scene from the movie Aski Ben Mi Yarattim ("Did I Create The Love?" or "Am I The One Created The Love?"). It was released in 1980.
Here's Orhan Gencebay filmography:
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The redhead in the movie is Mujde Ar. In the movie she is acting a role of a prostitute. The passport you mentioned in your post is actually her authorization licence to prostitute. The movie is about the love between a prostitute (Mujde Ar) who wants to get rid of this job to start a new life, and a singer (Orhan Gencebay) that tries to save her because he loves her.
The song in the scene is Bulamadik ki ("So We Couldn't Find"), claiming that he couldn't find the love and the happiness in his life yet. The song is from the longplay album in 1980 called Aski Ben Yaratmadim.
http://www.diskotek.arkaplan.
Here's Orhan Gencebay discography:
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Here's the original song Bulamadik Ki in the scene with a cleaner record: http://rapidshare.com/files/
Çok teşekkür ederim, Soner!
25 May 2009
Orhan Gencebay in Aski Ben Mi Yarattim
