The life of singer Dilber Ay, who died on April 29, 2019, was brought to the silver screen. Büşra Pekin played the artist in the movie, which was released on Friday last week.
Dilberay’s movie, which brought the audience to tears, became the second most watched production of the week after Kesişme: İyi ki Varsın Eren, with 131,337 people. Dilber Ay’s husband İbrahim Karakaş also expressed her thoughts on the film.
Talking about Büşra Pekin with words of praise, Karakaş said, “Of course, I was very touched while watching the movie. I couldn’t hold back my tears at the scene where she was married at a young age. I actually wanted Demet Akbağ to play it, but my brother Büşra also played her role like a lion.
This performance of the comedy actress in such a drama is admirable. Thank you to everyone who contributed,” he said.
Actress Büşra Pekin’s performance received rave reviews. Actress Gonca Vuslateri, who watched the movie, congratulated Büşra Pekin on social media with the words “You are magnificent, gorgeous, beautiful, wonderful” for her performance.
Büşra Pekin also sang the unforgettable songs of the artist in the movie Dilberay, which tells the sorrowful life of Dilber Ay, who has endured the pain, misery and violence she has experienced since her childhood, with the strength of her God-given voice, and thus managed to become Turkey’s lover.
Dilber Ay, the daughter of a poor family with eight children, brought a lot of sadness and sadness to her life, which she started in a tent in Kahramanmaraş. At 13, she was sold to an older man for money, they got married and had children. She was beaten and tortured for singing, but despite all the pain he experienced, she saw the summit and the prison in the scenes where he stepped with the strength she got from her God-given voice.
She never gave up. She came out of the bottomless pit she had fallen into, always singing. She preserves her place in the memories as a master artist whom all of Turkey remembers with love and respect, with her voice engraved in memories, even after her death, and continues to prove the power of women.