Dariush Mehrjouyi

Dariush Mehrjouyi, a great Iranian filmmaker and writer, was one of Iran’s prominent filmmakers and one of the main figures of the new wave of Iranian cinema.

 According to the report of  Buraq Hamim Art News website, Dariush Mehrjouyi was a great Iranian filmmaker and writer, born on December 9, 1939 in Tehran. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from UCLI University of Los Angeles in 1965 and was considered one of Iran’s leading filmmakers and one of the main figures of the new wave of Iran cinema.

Mehrjooi was first married to the engineer Faryar Javaherian , who was one of Iran’s famous architect engineers, and the result of this life was two children named “Maryam” and “Safa”. Mehrjooi married Vahida Mohammadifar for the second time, and the fruit of this successful life was a daughter named “Muna”.

Biography of Vahidah Mohammadifar, wife of Dariush Mehrjouyi

Vahida Mohammadifar was an Iranian screenwriter, costume designer and assistant director, the second wife of Dariush Mehrjooi, who was born on February 8 1969. Mohammadifar was a psychology graduate from Tehran University and started working in cinema in 1997 by acting in the movie “Laila”.

By writing the first episode of the screenplay “Island Tales”, Mohammadifar took up writing in a serious way and became a well-known name in the field of screenwriting by co-writing the screenplay “Mother’s Guest” with Mehrjooi and Moradi Kermani. Vahida Mohammadifar has a history of working in works such as “Laminor”, “Ghosts”, “How good you are back”, “Naranja Posh”, “Centauri” and “My Beloved Sky” in her artistic career.

The beginning of Dariush Mehrjouyi’s artistic activity with music

As a teenager, he became interested in music and participated in Mr. Zandi’s music class for a short time. With his father, who knew Iranian music well, he started playing the dulcimer, and then he got acquainted with western classical music and started playing the piano and writing pieces for the piano.

Immigrate to Los Angeles

At the age of 17, he became interested in cinema and in order to better understand foreign films, he learned English and finished his preliminary studies in Tehran. He became a manager at the Atlantic Hotel for a year, and then he was twenty years old when he went to California to continue his studies, where he first studied cinema, but soon abandoned cinema and studied philosophy. Finally, in 1965, he received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from UCLA Los Angeles University. In the same year, he took over the editorship of Pars Review in Los Angeles and returned to Iran after one year.

Dariush Mehrjouyi’s first film

In 1968, he made his first film called “Diamond 33”, which was a very expensive film. This film was released in Tehran on 5th of January 1968 and had average sales, and due to the high cost of production, it was considered a commercial failure and did not attract the attention of critics.

The movie “Cow” and the brilliance of Mehrjouyi

In 1968, in collaboration with Gholamhossein Saedi, he wrote and filmed the screenplay of “Cow” based on one of the short stories from Saedi’s “Azadaran Bil-e” series. This film won many awards in international festivals. “Cow” was a successful film both commercially and artistically and opened a new chapter in Iranian cinema. Since then, except for a few years break after the 1357 revolution and the subsequent events that led to his migration to France, Mehrjouyi was one of the prominent and prolific Iranian filmmakers.

The movie “Dire Mina”

“Daireh Mina” is Dariush Mehrjoui’s fifth feature film and his first color film as a director, produced in 1353. The film was banned for three years and was finally screened in 1356, and was released at the beginning of 1357. The enamel circle was shown at the Paris festival in 1977 and then Berlin and received awards from these two festivals. A young son lives with his family in the suburbs of Tehran. He takes his sick father to a big hospital for treatment. He cannot admit his father and spends several days on the sidewalk next to the hospital fences until he meets a person named Samari in exchange for selling blood. They give money and this is the entry of the young boy into the black cycle. Ezzatullah Tzami, Ali Nasiryan, Saeed Kangrani, Iraj Rad, Ismail Shangleh and Marzieh Broumand starred in this movie in front of Hoshang Bharlo’s camera. Hormoz Farhat composed the soundtrack of this film and Talaat Mirfenderski was in charge of editing. The volume of reviews written on this film is very significant and according to some critics, this film is Dariush Mehrjouyi’s best work. According to some historical narratives, after the banning of this film, Farah Pahlavi showed it to the Shah, and in the middle of watching the film, the Shah got angry and left the cinema room, claiming in a loud and protesting language that this Why are the intellectuals – or as it was customary for Malof to joke with Asadullah Alam, these intellectuals – always attached to the dark aspects of existence and only show the blackness of the society? This film is one of the few existing narratives of people selling blood in the Pahlavi period to make ends meet.

“Postman” movie

The movie “Postman” written and directed by Dariush Mehrjoui is based on the play Vitsk written by Georg Buchner and produced in 1351. Taghi Postchi lives in his master’s house with his wife and has a nervous and unbalanced personality. His doctor is a veterinarian who treats him with herbal medicines. The engineer, Arbab’s nephew, returns from Farang and this is the beginning of a betrayal and crime. Ali Nasiryan, Ezzatullah Tzamami, Jaleh Sam, Bahman Farsi, Ahmadreza Ahmadi, Ismat Safavi, Amraleh Sabri, Iraj Rad and… starred in this movie in front of the camera of Hoshang Baharlo. Hormoz Farhat composed the soundtrack of this film and Talat Mirfenderski edited this work.

The movie “The school we used to go to”

The movie “The School We Went To” directed by Dariush Mehrjoui and written by Fereydoun Dostdar and Dariush Mehrjoui is based on the story of the back yard of Adl Afaq School written by Fereydoun Dostdar in 1359. A group of students of a school decide to perform a play, which they face the opposition of the vice principal of the school, who manages affairs in the absence of the principal, and he is punished by him. Then the students criticize the conditions of the school by making a wall newspaper. When the moderator comes, as usual, he rolls up a wall newspaper and hits it on the children’s heads and stops them in front of the school theater. But one of the teachers and a librarian, who are jealous of the tyrannical and tyrannical moderator of the school, put him in his place with the help of other teachers, and twice the newspaper returns to its original place. Ali Nasiryan, Ezzatullah Tzami, Amrullah Sabri, Qasim Saif, Farshid Naqzai, Babak Barzoye, etc. starred in this film in front of Farrokh Majidi’s camera, and Manouchehr Oliyali edited this work.

The movie “The Tenants”

“The Tenants” is the seventh movie of Dariush Mehrjoui and was produced in 1365. An apartment building whose heir is unknown is managed under the supervision of the caretaker of the deceased owner of the house – who is also a resident of the building. Mubasher, in cooperation with the real estate broker, plans to take over and sell the house and refuses to do the major repairs that the house really needs. The tenants who found out about the incident contact the rival company, which is in the same area, and find out that the eviction order they received is invalid due to the unknown heirs of the property. Tenants hire some construction workers for repairs. In this comedy movie, Ezzatullah Tzamami, Akbar Abdi, Hossein Sarshar, Hamida Khairabadi, Reza Ruigiri, Iraj Rad, Siavash Thammorth, Farimah Farjami, Manouchehr Hamedi, Ferdous Kaviani, Manijeh Salimi and… acted in front of Hassan Qolizadeh’s camera. Nasser Chashmazar composed the soundtrack of this film and Hasan Hasandoost edited this work.

“Shirk” movie

The movie “Shirk” directed by Dariush Mehrjoui and written by Dariush Mehrjoui and Kambozia Pertoi was produced in 1366. The village where Shirk lives is attacked by pigs. Shirk’s father was killed by pigs. Haj Khalu, the village headman, is also unable to perform his duties well due to his old age and poor eyesight. In order to help Haj Khalo, Shirk tames a dog with some dates from the Gypsies and tames the dog with his friend Karmak. The night when Shirk and his hunting dog go to help Haj Khalo, pigs attack Jaliz. Haj Khalo, Shirk and dog attack the pigs and make them web and snake. Ezzatollah Tzami, Hamid Jabali, Farzaneh Kabuli, Mohammad Ali Naqikeni, Hossein Paipuzan, Mehdi Asadi, Seyed Hossein Hosseini, Inayat Senjari, Qasim Qanbari and Samad Khalsi starred in this movie in front of Hassan Qolizadeh’s camera. Nasser Chashmazar composed the soundtrack of this film and Hassan Hasandoost edited this work. You are watching sequences of this movie in Tabnak.

“Hamon” movie

“Hamon” is the ninth feature film of Dariush Mehrjoui as a director and produced in 1368. Hamid Hamon, who is constantly fighting with his wife, Mahshid, reviews his nightmare life. He, who is busy writing his treatise on love and faith, is looking for his old friend and target, Ali Abedini. He leaves the house and does crazy things. In a distraught state, following his complaints, he surrenders himself to the waves of the sea, but Abedini saves him. Also, this film deals with the concerns of young intellectuals after the revolution; Between worldliness and idealism. An image of idealism that is in turmoil due to worldly love (beauty, etc.), and on the other hand, Ali Abedini is a person whose duty is clear to himself and who has sacrificed the world for his ideals and beliefs. Mehrjouyi himself says that the story of this film was inspired by Sadegh Hedayat’s Buf Kor. Khosrow Shakibaei, Bita Farhi, Ezzatullah Tzamami and Fath Ali Owaisi are the four main actors of this movie who appeared in front of the camera of Touraj Mansouri. Nasser Cheshmazar composed the music for this film based on themes by Johann Sebastian Bach, and Hassan Hassandoost edited this work. Khosrow Shakibaei was highly regarded for his different performance in this film. Bita Farhi, who was 31 years old, had just returned from America and had her first acting experience in this film. One of the interesting aspects of this movie is that the scene of Farhi being beaten by Shikibai is real, and Mehrjoui took it in front of the camera without informing Farhi about this scene in advance so that the reaction and shock of the collision came out naturally.

The movie “Lady”

The movie “Bano” written and directed by Dariush Mehrjouyi was produced in 1370. Maryam, Mahmoud’s wife, finds out that Mahmoud is planning to leave and separate from her to join a divorced woman. After being alone, in order to relieve her pain and to find a companion, Karam Ali invites the neighboring gardener and his sick wife to his luxurious house. The film describes the condition of a lady who at first feels happy with the presence of new guests in her house, but gradually realizes the thefts of Gurban Salar, who is a relative of Karam Ali, and because of whom she became a guest of the lady. The breakdown of the lady’s soul and the disturbances that occur after the arrival of the guests lead the lady to her new decision that will bring about a change in her life. The lady, who has gone through new spiritual experiences, finally leaves her husband, who returned to him to make amends and apologize. Bita Farhi, Ezzatullah Tzami, Khosro Shakibaei, Gohar Khairandish, Ferdous Kaviani, Hamida Khairabadi, Fathali Owaisi, Sima Tirandaz, Mahmoud Kalari, Mir Salah Hosseini, Jalal Moghadam and Maleeha Nasiri starred in this film in front of the camera of Toruj Mansouri. Nasser Cheshm Azar composed the soundtrack of this film and Hasan Hassandoost edited this work.

“Sarah” movie

“Sara” is the 11th film of Dariush Mehrjoui as a director and was produced in 1371. The story of this movie is inspired by the play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. Hossam has to travel abroad to treat his illness. His wife Sarah is paying for his trip, but says she got the money from her father’s inheritance. Hossam recovers. Sarah, hidden from her husband’s eyes, tries to pay off her debts by working hard and continuously as a seamstress. Ghstaseb, the man who helped Sarah financially, has been accused of forging documents, and his job position in the bank is in jeopardy, and he wants Sarah to keep his job through the influence of Hossam, who has now become the head of the bank. Niki Karimi, Amin Tarakh, Khosro Shakibaei and Yasmin Maleknasr have played a role in this movie in front of the camera of Mahmoud Kalari. The music of this film is composed by Philip Glass and Hassan Hassandoost edited this work.

“Fairy” movie

“Fairy” is the 12th feature film of Dariush Mehrjoui as a director and produced in 1373. This movie is an adaptation of the novel “Frannie and Zoey” and the short story “A Good Day for Bananafish” written by Jerome David Salinger. This adaptation was without the author’s permission and this caused the author to complain. Pari is a young girl and a literature student, who undergoes intellectual changes after reading a small green book about the behavior of an unknown mystic in the fifth century. The book belongs to Pari’s older brother – Asad – who died in the fire accident of his cottage. Perry has another brother who tries to get him out of trouble. Dariush Mehrjouyi had a simple criticism of this film during an interview in “Duniya Hizbar” magazine and said: “He said that Pari wants to say that one should run away from the appearances of religion and one should be interested in the depth of Islam.” In this film, Dariush Mehrjouyi shows the character of Perry as a disturbed and somewhat anxious person who is extreme in his religion and fasts for several days and says zikr one after another and cannot tolerate his fiancee, who is completely different from his spiritual personality; But with the arrival of Dadashi’s character during the story, Perry is helped to some extent to get rid of the confusion and understand that it is not difficult to be together in this world and that we are all actors who are playing a role for God in this world.” Niki Karimi, Khosro Shakibaei, Ali Musafa, Ali Asghar Shadervan, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Jaleh Alou, Turan Mehrazad, Farhad Jam, Parsa Pirozfar, Jeanette Avansian, Keyvan Rostaminejad and Amir Hossein Sharifi have played roles in this movie in front of the camera of Alireza Zarin Dast. Keyvan Jahanshahi composed the soundtrack of this film and Hasan Hassan Dost edited this work.

“Leila” movie

“Lila” is the 13th feature film of Dariush Mehrjouyi produced in 1375. In this game, Mehrjouyi has taken a remarkable game from the couple Hamid Musafa and Leila Hatami in a different story context. This movie is the love story of Leila and Reza; A couple who meet each other in a Pezan yellow shell ceremony and get married soon after. The two of them, after living for a while, realize that Leila cannot give birth to a child. They follow numerous treatments and various tests but all remain without results. In the meantime, although it does not matter to Reza that Leila does not have a child, her mother, despite Reza’s feeling of satisfaction and happiness from a childless life, puts Leila under severe pressure and asks her to allow Reza to get a wife so that she can have a child for him. and then Reza’s second wife will leave their lives. The pressure of Reza’s mother finally works and Leila satisfies Reza. Without the knowledge of Leila’s family, Reza’s remarriage with Giti takes place. But on the wedding night, Leila takes refuge in her mother’s house and refuses to return to Reza’s life. Reza considers this act against Leila’s previous promises and after some time he divorced his second wife and left the daughter he has with her to her mother and lives alone. Giti remarries and Reza, with repeated requests from Leila and her family, one day visits Leila with her daughter Baran at the same Shhalezard Pezan ceremony. Leila Hatami, Ali Musafa, Jamila Sheikhi, Turan Mehrzad, Amir Payor, Shaghaiq Farahani and Mohammad Reza Sharifinia starred in this movie in front of Mahmoud Kalari’s camera. Keyvan Jahanshahi composed the soundtrack of this film and Mostafa Kharkeposh edited this work.

“Pear Tree” movie

The pear tree is the 14th feature film of Dariush Mehrjoui as a director and produced in 1376. Mahmoud is a writer who took refuge in his father’s garden in Damavand to write the rest of his new book after a long lack of work. But in the garden, the old pear tree, which is full of memories for Mahmoud, has not borne fruit, and the gardeners ask him to participate in a ritual ceremony to scare the tree and bring it back to life, and Mahmoud accepts, and in the meantime, he reviews his teenage memories. When he was infatuated with his aunt’s daughter and even though the girl is older than him, he expressed his love to her and wrote love poems to her and performed various plays with her for hours in the garden, because they both are interested in literature, but one day the girl came to say goodbye. Because she plans to go to her father who is abroad and Mahmoud asks her to wait and the girl accepts, but years later when Mahmoud enters the political currents, he does not answer the girl’s letters and postpones her departure to a later date until due to the activities of A politician goes to prison and there he receives the news of the girl’s death after seeing one of her relatives. Mahmoud is now on the verge of turning sixty, like a pear tree that still smells of meme sneakers, and he cannot finish his last book. Homayoun Ershadi, Golshifteh Farahani, Nematullah Gurji, Abbas Shadervan, Shahram Haqit Dost, Mohammad Reza Shahbani Nouri, Jafar Zagheri, Rahman Hosseini, Maryam Majd, Maryam Moqbali and Mehrdad Siye Chashani played in this movie in front of Mahmoud Kalari’s camera and Mustafa wore a cloak. Edited the work. For the music of this film, one of Philip Glass’s pieces called Mad Rush is used.

“Mix” movie

“Mix” is the 16th feature film of Dariush Mehrjoui as a director produced in 1378. A few more days left before the start of the festival and the film made by Khosrow had problems during the sound stage, wear and tear of technical devices, constant disconnection and disconnection of electricity, not being ready for the soundtrack and fatigue of the technical staff who are working around the clock, creating an atmosphere It has become tense and nervous. On the other hand, the requirement of the film to be in the festival, which is a necessary condition for its public screening next year, has caused the producer to put more pressure on Khosrow to prepare the film, while the assembly of the film has not yet been completed and even several The scene they filmed in the last stages did not reach them from the laboratory. Khosrow uses all his energy and encourages the agents to continue working. While there is no hope for the film to be ready on time. Nasser Cheshm Azar, the film’s composer, is also suffering from a mental crisis and avoids preparing the soundtrack, and when Khosrow takes him to the music recording studio with various tricks, the musicians’ fatigue prevents him from performing the music, and at the end Cheshm Azar is alone with The synthesizer plays the music. Amidst the influx of these sufferings that have increased Khosrow’s stress, the production team of the film does not care much and does not reduce his burden of worry with their cooperation. In the midst of all this trouble, several scenes of the film are censored, which requires manipulation of the editing and the reappearance of the actors for sound recording. But Leila Hatami and Ali Musafa, the two actors of the film, are angry with each other and are not ready to say their words. When Mohammadreza Sharifinia reconciles the two and solves the problem, it is Omid Rouhani’s turn, who annoys Vanfasa Khosrow with his untimely presence and request for an interview. Finally, the work pressure makes Khosrow crazy and he plans to destroy everything, but the group members tie him to a chair and continue the work. On the day of the movie screening, the ready clips of the movie will be shown until the rest of the curtains arrive, but the interruptions between the curtains arriving at the cinema have bored the audience and some of them, out of boredom, perform ridiculous comedy on the screen. do Khosro Shakibaei, Leila Hatami, Ezzatollah Tzami, Ali Musafa, Mohammad Reza Sharifi Nia, Ferdous Kaviani, Nasser Cheshmazar, Gohar Khair Andish, Negar Faruzandeh and Bita Farhi starred in this movie in front of Mahmoud Kalari’s camera. Nasser Cheshm Azar composed the music of this work and Hasan Hassandoost edited the mix.

“Stay” movie

“Bamani” is the 17th feature film of Dariush Mehrjoui as a director and produced in 2013. This film describes the lives of three Elamite girls named Madina, Nasim and Bamani, who have a shocking fate for each of them. This film has a reporting mode and a significant number of non-actors are present in it. Habib Rezaei, Buyuk Mirzaei, Masoumeh Bakshi, Shadi Heydari, Toran Yaqouti (Habibian), Qadir Heydari, Mohsen Khayati, Yadaleh Shirandami and Hossein Gil starred in this movie in front of Bahram Badakhshani’s camera. Mohammadreza Darvishi composed the soundtrack of this film and Dariush Mehrjouyi and Mastane Mohajer edited this work.

“Mom’s Guest” movie

Maman’s Guest is the 18th feature film of Dariush Mehrjoui as the director and writer of Dariush Mehrjoui, Vahidah Mohammadifar and Hoshang Moradi Kermani, produced in 2002. An intrusive guest comes to a family – the newlyweds and the groom – but because the family’s financial situation is not good, the neighbors join hands to maintain the reputation of the landlord… This movie, like the movie Tenants, shows corners of Iranian society and its habits and behavior by using different characters who may represent different strata of Iranian society. In this movie, Mohammad Reza Golzar was supposed to play one of the main roles. Kand, who was later replaced by Parsa Pirozfer. Gulab Adina, Parsa Pirouzfar, Amin Hayai, Hassan Pourshirazi, Nasrin Moqanlou, Melika Sharifinia, Alireza Jafari, Jale Alou, Faridah Sepah Mansour, Roya Alami and Amir Hosseini starred in this movie in front of Tourij Mansouri’s camera. Emad Bankdar composed the soundtrack of this movie and Mehdi Hosseini Vand edited this work. Maman’s Guest won Crystal Simorgh as the best film in the 22nd Fajr Film Festival.

“Century” movie

Century is the 19th movie of Dariush Mehrjoui as a director and produced in 2005. Ali, the master player of the dulcimer and the popular singer of the youth, suddenly loses the reins of life at the height of his fame and success and goes astray… Bahram Radan, Golshifteh Farahani, Masoud Raajan, Roya Timourian, Maedeh Tahmasabi, Nader Soleimani, Mehyar Pourhasabi, Siamak Pekhaniri, Mohammad Seluki, Hassan Pourshirazi and Sadruddin Hejazi starred in this film in front of the camera of Touraj Mansouri. Mohsen Chavoshi and Ordvan Kamkar composed the soundtrack of this film and Mehdi Hosseinivand edited this work. After the film was made, it received a screening license, but despite the release permit, the authorities did not allow the release of this film. The film was finally released in Canada. With a lawsuit, Mehrjouyi received significant damages for this procedure from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

The movie “The Beloved Sky”

The movie “Asman Mehboob” directed by Dariush Mehrjoui and written by Vahida Mohammadifar and Dariush Mehrjoui was produced in 2008. A young doctor named Shayan finds out that he has a brain tumor at the peak of his work and social success. He decides to commit suicide, but at the last moment something happens that makes him leave a remote village and unexpected events happen to him. His presence in the village mixes him with stories and people, which, in addition to creating astonishment, happiness and peace in him, will lead to a complete change in the course of his life in the future. By being in the village and accepting the role of a doctor and an architect in that small environment, while gaining new experiences, he saw a new curtain of people’s kindness towards him and at the end of his life, he owes himself to those whom he lived with for only a few days. . After some time, he leaves the village for some reason and when he returns, he faces a strange scene that challenges the entire story of the film. Ali Musafa, Leila Hatami, Farida Sepah Mansour, Mani Haghighi, Homayoun Ershadi, Gurban Najafi, Seyed Amir Seidi, Mohammad Baqer Safanour, Mobina Karimi and Hossein Mushtaghi played in front of Farrokh Majidi’s camera. Hossein Alizadeh composed the soundtrack of this film and Hasan Hassandoost edited this work.

“Tehran Tehran” movie

The movie “Tehran Tehran” is a two-episode work about Tehran, the capital of Iran. These two episodes were directed by two cinematographers from two different generations: Dariush Mehrjovi and Mehdi Karampour. This movie produced in 2008, which was previously called Tehran in search of beauty, was supposed to have three parts and the middle part was directed by Saifullah Dad, who died before the film started. “Tehran: Days of Acquaintance” is the first episode of the movie. In this episode, Dariush Mehrjoui narrates old Tehran. In this episode, Panthea Bahram, Gurban Najafi, Mehtaj Najomi, Gholamreza Nikkhah, Katayoun Amir Ebrahimi, Farida Sepah Mansour and young actors Niki Nasrian and Mehdi Talebzadeh play. “Tehran Tehran: The Last Wire” is the second episode directed by Karampour and is about a singer who is trying to give a concert. But during the process of obtaining the permit, problems arise for him and his group. Soroush Sehat, Tanaz Tabatabai, Rana Azadivar, Reza Yazdani also played a role in this episode. Ali Luqmani filmed this work and Karen Homayunfar composed the soundtrack.

The movie “Orange Man”

Also, after the adventures of “Century” in 2009, Mehrjoui made a film called “My Beloved Sky”, which was neither popular with critics nor fans of Atisheh Mehrjoui. The film never saw the color of the screen and found a fate like “Century” and after 4 years of production in 2014, it quietly came to the home network.

In 2013, Mehrjoui started making a movie called “Naranja Posh” starring Hamed Behdad and Leila Hatami, regardless of the lack of screening and reception of “My Beloved Sky”. A film in support of the environment, which was Mehrjouyi’s main concern at that time. Orange Posh, which had its supporters and detractors and its director’s name was still in the headlines, was not very successful at the box office, and despite attracting only 327,000 viewers, it took the sixth place in the list of the most popular of the year. In the year when the third film of the “Little Red Riding Hood” trilogy titled “Red Riding Hood and Baby Nene” was the most popular movie of the year with only about one million and five hundred thousand viewers, and the audience did not welcome the films on the screen.

In 2011, Mehrjouyi made the movie “Che Khobe Ke Backir”. A film that still saw the strong footprints of Vahida Mohammadifar on it. Reza Attaran’s film was refreshing with a weird and sticky Hamed Behdad and a Mahnaz Afshar as always. Despite the presence of these 3 prominent actors, the film was unable to attract the audience. Only 237,000 viewers saw the movie, and Mehrjouyi’s movie was ranked 11th in the list of the most watched movies of the year. In a year when the cinema still did not have a good box office and the most watched movie of the year could not even have a million audience.

Dariush Mehrjoui, indifferent to the lack of acceptance by the audience, writers and critics of his works, made the film “Ghosts” in 2014, which was even more disappointing than his previous film. Mehrjouyi’s return to a play by Henrik Ibsen (after “A Doll’s House” for the film “Sara”) did not work this time and “Ghosts” was a complete failure. A film that, if it did not have the name of Mehrjouyi in the initial title, few people would have guessed that this film was made by one of the prominent directors of Iranian cinema. “Ghosts” attracted only 25,000 viewers in the general release, and in the year when “Shahr Moushha 2” once again revived the box office and had more than two million viewers, “Ghosts” was ranked 39th in the list of the most popular films of the year. took

“Laminor” and its margins

Dariush Mehrjoui stayed away from cinema for 6 years after “Ghosts” and returned to cinema once again with a story about music (after “Century”) and with the same mood. He made “Laminor” in 2018 and the film was not present at the 38th Fajr Film Festival by the decision of its producer.

Dariush Mehrjoui published a video in protest and criticism of the non-release of his film. This video was published by Mehdi Khorramdel (journalist and documentary maker) and in it Mehrjouyi strongly criticizes this decision and emphasizes the release of Nowruz and the start of the screening of his film on the 18th of Esfand.

In this protest video, Mehrjouyi says: “I protest! This is the ticket to the screening of my film “Laminor”! This is not milk, it is not meat that you can say is out of date! You showed me the butterfly. Why do you break your promise?

You are not a man! Be a man! You are banning all my videos! You lost one of my movies and threw it in the garbage! My Centauri film was taken in front of me for no purpose, should we work on a film for two or three years and then throw it out? who are you I’m a philosophy major from America’s biggest university, you’re judging my movie. who are you? What degree do you have? what did you do Behind the curtain, you pass judgments like ghosts.

I can’t take it anymore. I will come and sit with my assistants in the Ministry of Guidance. I will not let go until I get my right. Ministry of Ershad; Dear Minister! listen to me I can’t anymore. I want to fight Come on, kill me. This is my chest. Kill me and destroy me, but I will take my right.”

After these events and Mehrjouyi’s protest against this behavior, the Iranian Film Critics and Writers Association reacted to the behavior of Dariush Mehrjouyi in a statement and supported this veteran director.

In the end, with some margins, the screening license of “Laminor” was extended, and Reza Darmishian, the producer of this film, wrote on his Instagram page: “And finally, Mr. Mehrjouyi’s screening license of “Laminor” was extended.

Although they did not let “Laminor” be released on Nowruz, but with the support of all the artists, media activists and people whose hearts beat for art and authentic and popular artists, the license of “Laminor” was extended after many struggles and numerous revisions. We are ready to show in cinemas.”

On the other hand, Mehrjouyi, after the issuance of the screening license, said in another video, while thanking the people of the cinema and those who had supported him, “There was a misunderstanding that fortunately was resolved, they gave me wrong information and I was sad, and God Thank goodness it was resolved.”

What was Mehrjouyi’s last project?

Zindayad Dariush Mehrjoui was involved in the pre-production of the movie “Muna” for several years, a film that Niki Karimi and Hamed Behdad were supposed to go in front of the camera in their fourth and third collaboration with Mehrjoui.

Niki Karimi said in this regard: Recently, I had the chance to be with him for the rehearsal of the film we were going to work together called “Mona”, I could see how he still only cares about humans.

Niki Karimi had previously worked with Mehrjouyi in “Sara”, “Perry” and “Mix” and Hamed Behdad in the films “Naranja Posh” and “Che Khobe Ke Beresdi”.

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