Aladdin Motors is a sharp, fast-paced ensemble comedy set in the morally gray world of subprime used car sales. Mo, an ambitious but perpetually underestimated branch manager, is desperate to pull his store out of last place in company rankings. Standing in his way: impossible sales targets, a revolving door of customers with loan applications that should never clear, and Trevor — his smug, trophy-wielding rival branch manager who’s never lost to him.

Each week, Mo’s crew tackles a high-stakes, barely-legal sales puzzle: gig workers without pay stubs, fresh-out-of-work customers with stories as tangled as their credit, co-signers whose best asset is a bingo winnings slip. Inside the lot, chaos is constant: the finance manager’s blunt pragmatism clashes with a swaggering salesman’s bravado; their India–Pakistan quips form a comedic throughline that hides a taboo love connection. Meanwhile, the rest of the reps undercut, sabotage, or outright poach each other’s deals — all in the name of getting “Approved” stamped on the deal folder before the bank can call back.

The show skewers hustle culture, sales-floor machismo, and the moral gymnastics of making the numbers, while finding surprising heart in the stories of second chances. By season’s end, Mo’s circus goes from worst to first, but victory costs him: rivalries deepen and the lines blur.

"Deeper themes" are cool but this is a comedy. I'm not looking to teach a lesson every episode - it may organically occur but we're not looking to virtue signal hot buzz words in pop culture for personal gain or views. It's on us to make our show strong enough to pull audiences in based off the quality of the content. If you put a gun to my head and asked what's the "deeper meaning" - we could explore the American Dream and what that means to the immigrants of today. Also, how people from all walks of life can initially hate one another then learn to tolerate their respective differences and actually learn to like or love each other.

This story is important to me because I was a man of principle working in a morally bankrupt business, which made me unpopular among my colleagues and although it was traumatizing - luckily I had the realization that I didn't belong there and left after a few years of hopping around, just enough time to amass a depth of knowledge in the field that I can now use for a good cause, laughter.

This project is important to me because it's an immigrant story while also being widely universal - its very nature captures the county I grew up in just outside of Washington, D.C in Northern Virginia, one of the most culturally diverse areas in the United States. Production-wise, becaue it's a single location workplace comedy, the geography of it all doesn't matter, could be anywhere in the country or the world, for that matter.

Also, the show is incredibly inexpensive to shoot which is also why it's important to me because it's affordability enabled me to direct my very first short and finally put something I wrote on paper out into the world. I've written over a dozen screenplays or teleplays in the last decade, almost sold two pilots but the strike got in the way. Aladdin Motors has allowed for us to cut through the red tape and produce content without as many limitations as a multi-location prestige drama, for example.

My name is Cyrus (Cy) Kazai and I've been writing since I was 13 years old, it's all I know and it's an integral part of my daily life. I was adopted at 13 so writing is like art therapy, and I lived in the Washington, D.C. area in the 90s, no walk in the park - and although the city led the nation in homicides per capita, people always knew how to crack jokes - laughter as medicine.

Where are we at with the project as of right now? Aladdin Motors, the short film, was released on Christmas Day of 2025 and in just a few months with very little marketing push, has amassed millions of views on IG and over 53k views on YouTube. The purpose of this campaign is to raise enough to shoot a full episode and ultimately, to get scooped up by an FX/Apple/Netflix, one of the big ones.

We pledge to use the funds responsibly to further the chances of our baby making it to green light status. Far as stretch goals go, any extra funds will be spent on marketing, shooting high quality verticals and editing. This campaign will help move the project forward by raising the funds necessary to shoot with the best cast and crew and position ourselves for success in front of studio heads and agents.

Once we have a full episode shot, we will distribute it on YouTube and continue to raise funds to shoot a full season and stream it all on YouTube with hopes of creating a buzz worthy of a green light with a major studio or streamer. Our audience will be able to view a finished/edited project on YouTube in 60 days or less of project funding.

If you watch our short film and are tickled by what you enough to rush to the rooftops and howl "Aladdin Motors" in the moonlight, please help us spread the message on socials to your friends/family who enjoy comedy and anyone you know who may have been harmed by a used car dealer by sending this link around and maybe this stupid caption:

Have you ever been screwed over at a used car dealership? Come trauma bond with us at:

https://seedandspark.com/fund/aladdin-motors

We got so lucky with the cast and crew, they are amazing. We have an Emmy-award winning poet and an actor from CURB season 10. The others are just as talented and they all did a tremendous job in the short film, shown in the link below:

Check out our YouTube page for the full short or clips and new content at https://www.youtube.com/@AladdinMotors