Comedic Turkish duo return for even more laughs

Less than a year later, Ata Demirer and Demet Akbağ reprise their roles as the naive clarinet player and the street-smart nightclub singer in ‘Eyvah Eyvah 2.’ Watch the first film on DVD and catch the heart-warming sequel on screen

It was only 10 months ago when the dream duo of comedy, Ata Demirer and Demet Akbağ, paired on screen for Eyvah Eyvah, one of the highest-grossing Turkish films of last year. Hot on the heels of the recent DVD release of the film, Demirer and Akbağ reprise their roles as the fish-out-of-water clarinet player and the brazen nightclub singer in the recent sequel, Eyvah Eyvah 2.

Both Demirer and Akbağ have been household names for two decades. After starting her career as a stage actor in the 1980s, Akbağ became a fixture on Turkish TV with her hilarious characters in the TV show Bir Demet Tiyatro in the late 1990s. She later steered her career to the stage and occasional movie roles.

Akbağ may have starred in less than a dozen films in two decades, but her brilliant acting and larger-than-life characters have garnered her various awards. She twice won the prestigious Golden Orange award, one for her role in 1993’s Tersine Dünya (World in Reverse) and another for Vizontele of 2000.

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