The life of Laila Murad 1918-1995 will be dramatized in a TV biopic, Qalbi Dalili My Heart is My Guide, named after one of her most famous songs.

The young Syrian actress, Safaa Sultan, is seeking a residence in Cairo, where he shooting is due soon,The serial will be simultaneously run in the holy month of Ramadan on 8 channels at least,The family of the late legendary Egyptian singer wanted to stop the production and sued the producer to that end, but the case was dropped.

Murad had converted from Judaism to Islam and quitted music at the peak of her stardom, probably out of protest to slurs linking her to the then nascent Zionist state, when she was also married to the iconic actor and filmmaker Anwar Wagdi.

The serial shows Murad’s relations with King Farouk of Egypt, who admired her vocals, as well as with the 1952 Revolution officers, and the artists of her time, including the belly dancer Badee’a Masabni, actor Naguib Rihani and director Fatin Abdel Wahab, also her second husband, who fathered her son Zaki—later a director himself who married Souad Hosni in 1970s, all to the disapproval of his mother, then well into retirement for about two decades.

Murad’s brother, Mounir, was in his turn an actor and musician.