“In the past, you couldn’t approach such characters in a humanising way, but characters such as Bozorg-Agha at times even evoke sympathy and that’s something new,” Jahed said. Striking, too, is the fact that its shah-linked characters, such as Bozorg-Agha, are not depicted in an unambiguously negative way. Shahrzad is not solely critiquing Iran’s past politics, but also subtly highlighting beliefs and norms considered wrong and anachronistic that are nonetheless still present in Iranian lives.
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“These series made outside the state TV apparatus and produced privately are a new phenomenon.” “There are things that are absent from a state TV production, such as the displaying of music instruments or women singing, but you’ll see them in Shahrzad,” he said. Not all historical references in Shahrzad are accurate, says film critic Parviz Jahed, but “good story-telling has made it an intriguing and successful melodrama set against the backdrop of an important episode in Iran’s modern history”. Those scenes strike a chord in today’s Iran, in the light of more recent crackdowns against journalists and activists, especially after the 2009 post-election unrest. The series portrays the huge crackdown that took place at the hands of the shah’s forces, with journalists and intellectuals summoned, intimidated or jailed arbitrarily and newspaper licences revoked. But the forced marriage does not separate the two. Shahrzad, meanwhile, is forced to marry against her wishes and become the second wife of the son-in-law of Bozorg-Agha, a hugely influential Godfather-like figure who is close to the shah. Farhad, an ardent supporter of Mosaddeq, is jailed after the shah’s brutal forces close down his newspaper. Shahrzad, a medical student, and Farhad, a journalist, often meet at the iconic Cafe Naderi, a hub for intellectuals. It was a defining moment in Iran’s modern history, the reverberations of which are still felt today. That coup, engineered by the CIA and the British intelligence to safeguard the west’s oil interests, consolidated the shah’s rule until the 1979 Islamic revolution. The result, however, is a series that treads a fine line, even at times showing the generally unshowable, such as women singing.Īnd out of a depiction of Iran under the late shah’s despotic rule comes a drama that draws many parallels to politics in the country today.ĭirected by Hasan Fathi and written jointly with playwright and university professor Naghmeh Samini, Shahrzad is the story of a love broken apart by events in the aftermath of the 1953 coup that overthrew the democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq.
Like most films made in Iran, Shahrzad has already been approved by the censors - every single scene, each dialogue and costume has been carefully examined to make sure it adheres to the norms. Shahrzad is drawing big audiences in a country where independent online series, produced privately, are becoming a new phenomenon as more people turn their backs on tightly controlled state television for online substitutes or illegal satellite channels. Netflix may not have yet infiltrated Iranian households, but its style of gripping film-making has. Once a week, when a new episode is released, the show has a whole nation glued to their screens. This is Iran 1950s style, brought back to life in the online TV series Shahrzad, the most expensive production of its kind in the country. Please email before taking any action and we will aim to resolve any issues as quickly as possible.ĭMCA - § 512(f) Misrepresentations Section 512(f) deters false claims of infringement by imposing liability on anyone who makes such claims, for the damages suffered by other parties as a result of the OSP's reliance on the false claim, and for associated legal fees.FOOTSTEPS resonate on cobblestones, snooker clubs are open, women and men go partying together, cabarets are full, the alcohol flows, chapeaux are fashionable, the national theatre is showing Othello and, in the small cinemas along Lalehzar - old Tehran’s Champs-Élysées, Casablanca is on the screens. Please note that any copyright action against the Official YouTube Channel will be taken seriously.
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