Lud, zbunjen, normalan

Lud, zbunjen, normalan
Created by Feđa Isović (screenplay)
Elmir Jukić (director)
Starring Mustafa Nadarević
Senad Bašić
Moamer Kasumović
Country of origin Bosnia and Herzegovina
No. of seasons 10
No. of episodes 200+ (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s) Davor Pušić, Jasmin Duraković, Siniša Svilan, Mirsad Herović
Location(s) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Running time 30-40 minutes
Release
Original network FTV (2007.-2013.)
Nova TV (2014.-2016.)
Prva TV (2015.-)
RTS, B92, A1, Kanal 5, POP TV, Vijesti, Face TV
Original release 2 September 2007 – present
Website

Lud, zbunjen, normalan (English: Crazy, Confused, Normal) is a Bosnian television comedy series that began airing in 2007. Since its debut, it has also been shown in Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia. It has 10 seasons with 264 episodes aired during 2015-2016.

Concept

Three generations of the Fazlinović family all live in a Sarajevo apartment. The oldest of the family is Izet Fazlinović. Izet has a son Faruk, who in turn has a son Damir. In season four, Damir's son Džebra is born. The show's title refers to the three main characters, with Izet being Lud (crazy), Faruk being Zbunjen (confused) and Damir being Normalan (normal). The show's plot revolves around humorous situations involving the Fazlinović clan, their friends and co-workers.

Development

The first episode of Lud, zbunjen, normalan aired on 2 September 2007. The first five episodes were produced as a pilot for Bosnian public broadcaster FTV, but then Croatian commercial TV station Nova TV joined to produce the show, then the crew was ready to begin production. Beside producer Davor Pušić and Mirsad Herović, very important production whole in process of making had Jasmin Durakovic who was at that time General Menager of FTV. He made the decision for the beginning of production and made a cast with Mustafa Nadarević and Senad Bašić. Another important player for this project was Siniša Svilan, who was the director of the programme. Nova TV, who commissioned TV rights for the Croatian territory and provided production to make first season. The first season had 40 episodes, the second had 32 episodes, and seasons three and four each had 24 episodes. The fifth season, which aired in 2012, had 16 episodes and the season six had 9 episodes before the series was canceled by Federalna televizija.

A seventh season has been announced and began airing on 3 November 2014.

In 2015 the Bosnian broadcaster has changed to the commercial television Face TV. Face TV started broadcasting the 7th season regularly from 4 April 2015 at 8 p.m.

In 2016, Feđa Isović stated that after 264 episodes, series is ended.

Episodes

So far 264 episodes have filmed and while 217 episodes have aired.

Cast and characters

Lud zbunjen normalan employs an ensemble cast. Three generations of the Fazlinović family all live in a Sarajevo apartment. The oldest of the family is Izet Fazlinović (Mustafa Nadarević). Izet has a son Faruk (Senad Bašić) who has a son Damir (Moamer Kasumović). The show's title refers to the three main characters, with Izet being Lud (crazy), Faruk being Zbunjen (confused) and Damir being Normalan (normal). The show's plot revolves around humorous situations involving the Fazlinović clan, their friends and co-workers.

The series also featured a number of guest stars. The series featured Enis Bešlagić as Đenis Đenis, a rockstar; Samir Fazlinović, Izet's nephew from his late brother, played by a famous Bosnian actor and also the minister of sports and culture in Sarajevo Emir Hadžihafizbegović, who later was promoted to a regular on the show.

Popular balkan singers that had a guest appearance on the show are: Al Dino, a recording artist; Sejo Sexon (Davor Sučić - aka "Sejo Sexon"), member of the rock group "Zabranjeno Pušenje", who is a good friends with Faruk; Tifa (Tifa); Nagib (Zlatan Zuhrić - Zuhra) who came to Faruk to record a song and Nina Badrić, came to Izet to record a song.

Protagonists

Other cast and characters

Recurring appearances

Episodic appearances

Celebrity Appearances

Controversy

Episodes 76 and 77 drew some controversy from the Muslim community and some other organizations that are not entirely Muslim. One of the themes of the episode 76 was a pious Muslim singer that came to Faruk's studio to record a few religious songs (with Faruk and other characters pretending to share the singer's religious zeal to get his business) and him almost eating english ham which was made in 1938 and which was passed as turkey. In episode 77 Izet and Đuro were trying to get a cow, but they got a pig, which died in a trunk of Izet's car. When Đuro told Izet about his new plan how to get money, Izet replied "When you have a plan, we finish on the pig's funeral!".

Cancellation

On 7 April 2013 Federalna televizija announced that Lud, zbunjen, normalan was canceled because of financial issues. In the last episode, Izet, Faruk and Damir are on an airplane to Stockholm. The plane crashes and they are believed to be dead. However, three passengers who were booked missed the flight and these three are suspected to be Izet, Faruk and Damir. The series continued in November 2014.

Trivia

External links

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