Director: Vedat Uyar
A debt her brother can't repay pushes Sama into an arrangement she never wanted in "Love Game," a 2024 Lebanese-Saudi comedy-drama directed by Vedat Uyar that plays a fake-feeling romance for both laughs and heartache.
What is Love Game about?
To bail her brother out of financial trouble, Sama agrees to a plan that sounds simple on paper: get close to Malek, a wealthy shoe designer, fall in love with him, and marry into money that will save her family. What starts as a calculated performance keeps colliding with real feelings, awkward misunderstandings, and the kind of social pressure that comes from pretending in front of everyone who actually knows you. The comedy leans on Sama's constant juggling act between honesty and necessity, while the drama creeps in through the guilt she carries about deceiving someone who may not deserve it. Moatasem al-Nahar and Nour Ali lead a cast that treats the central deception less as a gimmick and more as a slow unraveling of what Sama actually wants once the manufactured romance starts to feel less manufactured.
Cast & crew
Moatasem al-Nahar and Nour Ali star as the couple at the center of the arranged deception, with Shokran Mortja, Ayman Reda, Joe Trad, Sacha Dahdouh, Ayman Abdel Salam, and Hassan Khalil rounding out the supporting cast of family and friends caught in the fallout.
Context & significance
A Lebanese-Saudi co-production, the series sits comfortably within a regional tradition of romantic comedy-dramas that use marriage-of-convenience setups to explore family obligation and class differences. Episodes run about 40 minutes, keeping the tone light enough for comedy while leaving room for the more serious debt and family-pressure plotlines to land.
Where & how to watch
"Love Game" streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so the will-it-become-real romance comes through clearly for Farsi-speaking viewers. The page is free to browse, and watching only requires logging into a K-Time account, part of a Farsi-first streaming experience built for the Iranian diaspora.