Ali Nassirian, acting at the age of 81 in the role of Bozorg Agha, is “superb”. Shahrzad is a winner in almost all these lines but perhaps especially because it is strong in casting. Apart from the censor, there are major issues with financing and timely production and distribution, which have in the past been erratic.Īttention must be paid to every word used and to every detail of clothing and costume design to avoid being blocked.
Productions such as Shahrzad are not easy in Iran.
Its director, Hassan Fathi, has co-written the script with Naghmeh Samini both diligently observing Islamic redlines but also bold in their messages.
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Shahrzad is the first successful quality production serial on FEN, which is increasingly an important medium of entertainment.
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It is available on DVD in Iran and online for Persian speakers around the world.Ī still from the Iranian TV series Shahrzad It is an online TV serial financed and produced privately and marketed through what is known as Family Entertainment Network (FEN). Highly political natureĭespite the highly political nature of the story, Shahrzad has managed to pass all censors and capture huge audiences. In political affairs, too, Bozorg Agha destroys all rivals by ordering their annihilation. She lies to Farhad to save his life and becomes second wife to Bozorg Agha ‘s son-in-law.Ī web of intrigues follows, ruining the life not just of Shahrzad and Farhad but also of Bozorg Agha’s own daughter and the baby born as his heir. Shahrzad, torn between her love for Farhad and her own dignity, agrees. He agrees to help on the condition that Shahrzad becomes a surrogate mother for his daughter, who cannot have children. Desperate to save Farhad, she decides to ask Bozorg Agha for help, not knowing that he’s the one who has financed “ the brainless” mob. Shahrzad works as a part-time nurse for the powerful Bozorg Agha. The serial benefits from juxtaposing a double-edged message between then and now on taboo subjects such as social freedoms. The scenes of interrogation, torture in prison and false confessions that precede the executions are reminiscent of today, as are the secret intelligence agents constantly following opposition figures. His office is ransacked by the mob and he is falsely implicated in the killing of one of the Shah’s Guards of Honour.ĪLSO READ: Lady Macbeth or just Princess Ashraf Pahlavi?įarhad, together with several of his colleagues, are charged with murder and sentenced to death. Shahrzad is a bold, confident young woman studying to become a doctor and Farhad is a journalist working for a pro-Mossadeq newspaper, Bakhtar Emrouz. They often meet in Cafe Naderi near the fashionable Lalehzar quarter of Tehran, listening to music and reciting love poems but at the same time seriously following political developments. Shahrzad and Farhad are two young intellectuals in love caught in this period of military transition. The Shah returned home from Baghdad where he had fled for safety, and the armed forces dismantled all rival political parties, discharging all officers loyal to Mossadeq.
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The local sound effects for the event were provided by Sha’ban “the brainless”, who led noisy pro-Shah demonstrations from the red-light district to the bazaar with the full support of the gendarmerie. It revives the memory of those painful days in August 1953 when the military, supported by the US intelligence (CIA) and its local operatives, stormed the residence of the elected premier of Iran, Mohammad Mossadeq and, after a nine-hour battle, captured him. The serial, now in its 27th episode, has captivated Iran with its double-edged criticism of what went on then and the starting similarities with today. Set in the early 1950s Iran, in the era just after the US-led coup that reinstated Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, a new Iranian TV serial, Shahrzad, tells the story of an innocent love tormented by power games and corruption.
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