My Name Is Happy (2022)

Name: My Name Is Happy
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-07-21T16:23:27+02:00
Rating: 3.5

Documentary | 82 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 82 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Nick Read and Ayse Toprak

IMDb score: 7,3 (80)

Releasedate: 9 November 2022

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My Name Is Happy plot

As a teenager, Mutlu Kaya, a Kurdish from southeastern Turkey, was a promising singer. She was about to break into the final of Turkey's Got Talent in 2015 when she was shot by a man whose marriage proposal she had refused. She suffered life-threatening injuries. During her years of rehabilitation and attempts to resume her life and singing career, the family is again struck by violence. Mutlu's sister Dilek does not survive an assassination attempt by her fiancé.

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mrklm

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21 July 2025 at 16:23

In 2015, Kurdish woman Mutlu Kaya became a media sensation with her appearance on a Turkish talent show, where she (as it turns out) impressively delivered her own lamentations. Her future looked bright until she met Veysi Ersan, a considerably older man who soon proposed. Her answer marked a tragic turn in Mutlu's (Kurdish for "happy") life. In this documentary, Mutlu reflects on what she and her family endured in the seven years leading up to it. A compelling account of a painfully current topic that would have benefited from more background information about Veysi.