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Kayhan

Kayhan

Movie · 2018 · 3 people

The Turkish comedy Kayhan opened in cinemas on February 9, 2018. It brings to the screen the Kayhan character Şahan Gökbakar played on the television program Kime Diyorum. Togan Gökbakar directed; he and Şahan Gökbakar wrote the script together and also produced the film. It is a Çamaşırhane production distributed by Mars Entertainment Group. At the box office it drew about 602,000 admissions and roughly 7.1 million lira.

Twenty years after leaving high school, Kayhan goes to the school's pilaf day to meet classmates he has not seen for years. There he faces a bitter truth: in the school yearbook many of his friends wrote terrible things about him. Despite the years that have passed, Kayhan vows to settle accounts for those words and sets about taking revenge on his old friends one by one. Şahan Gökbakar plays Kayhan, İrfan Kangı plays Orçun, Gökçe Eyüboğlu plays Sevim and Pınar Özer plays Ayşe.

The film runs 105 minutes and was shot by cinematographer Gérard Simon. Years later Şahan Gökbakar said in a statement that the film did not turn out as he had pictured it and that he had not been in a frame of mind suited to producing comedy at that time.

DirectorTogan Gökbakar
Production companyÇamaşırhane
Kayhan Kayhan

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Cast

Gökçe Eyüboğlu Gökçe Eyüboğlu Actor · 43 years old Sevim Şahan Gökbakar Şahan Gökbakar Film actor · 46 years old Kayhan İrfan Kangı Orçun

Also in the cast: Yücel Gökçek, Kaan Yabaş, Pınar Özer

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Through different eyes

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Bringing a television sketch character to the big screen takes nerve, but the cinema asks for a longer breath, and one idea alone is hard to stretch into a whole film. The notion of settling scores over cruel words in a school yearbook strikes me as rather harsh; I look for a measure of tenderness at the heart of a comedy. In the old Yeşilçam comedies, even the broadest joke had a warm humanity underneath. How much of that warmth you find here will depend on your taste in humor.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Kayhan carries the familiar problem of comedies that jump from television to cinema: humor resting on a single idea struggles to fill 105 minutes. Taking revenge on classmates one by one gives the film an episodic spine; that can make for flow, but the risk of repeating the same trick is just as large. In this kind of work the real test is not only whether each scene is funny but whether it serves the story. That Şahan Gökbakar said years later that the film did not turn out as he had pictured it is reason enough to approach the result with caution.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

The story is simple: someone takes revenge for the nasty things classmates wrote about him in a school yearbook. So the film revolves around payback. Think twice before putting it on with small children. If you want a light comedy for teenagers and adults, it could do. But with grandparents on the sofa, some jokes might put you in an awkward spot, so it is wise to check it yourself first.

These are not reader reviews: they are short editorial takes written from different viewer perspectives with AI assistance. Reader reviews are below.

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