Abu Janti (King of taxi/ King of lancer) (series)
أبو جانتي (ملك التاكسي/ ملك اللانسر)- Production country: Syrian Arab Republic
- Creator: سامر المصري , Razi Warda
- Production companies: شركة ورد (Flower Company), شركة كاريزما (Charisma Company)
- Genre: Comedy
- Release date: 8/21/2010
- Release date of last episode: 8/18/2012
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 2 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 60
- Run time: 45 min.
Series description
The events of the series take place through ordinary and passing characters (passengers), who are picked up by Abu Janti taxi by chance, so that the hero catches their stories and comments on them and affects or is influenced by them in the context of his daily movement and pension, and in a mold that tends to wit in most of its area, but it approaches tragedy or crying sometimes, conveying the image of reality The real, with critical sarcasm or cynical pain. The work tries to enter the personal worlds of taxi drivers and the worlds of customers, which will not be devoid of the funnyness of the situation, with a satirical comic framework. The work belongs to the type of black comedy, as it presents the problems of society so that it forces you, as a viewer, to oscillate between laughing and crying in the same scene. The series carries new and varied ideas and creates topics that touch the problems and concerns of simple people.