best iranian comedy

Negarsayadi
3 min readDec 28, 2020

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For many years, comedy has become the dominant genre of Iranian cinema, both by producers who certainly think about the production cycle and the return on investment of their works, and by audiences whose cinema is still one of their main hobbies. However, over the past few decades, Iranian comedies have also gone through a ups and downs, so that the successful comedies of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s are by no means comparable in structure, content or production conditions. One of the ways to study the social situation of any nation is to look at popular culture, and in Iran, comedy cinema can be the best possible crystallization of the flow of popular cultural products.filimo shot.

motreb

The best-selling film of last year and, of course, the entire history of Iranian cinema (based on price, not the number of tickets sold), it remains to be seen whether another film can come close to its record this year, given the state of Corona. Especially the success of this film by Mostafa Kiai was surprising because it was released in the inflamed social conditions of the country, last fall and winter, and was able to conquer the box office.
The story is about street market singers whose work coincides with the revolution and does not have the opportunity to read for four decades. Years later, a concert is scheduled to take place in Turkey and the singer will return to the stage. In the meantime, the whole story of another micro-species occurs and و.
The main elements of the film, such as dealing with the popular underground culture of the past decades, Parviz Parastovi’s return to the comedy genre, the presence of Elnaz Shakerdoust in the most lucrative period of his career and Istanbul’s tourist attractions, can all be enough to guarantee the film’s success. “Motareb” may not be a 100% comedy, but the glue that brings together its different tones, sub-stories, and scattered situations is an attempt to make the audience laugh and entertain; And it should not be forgotten that the film deals with issues and points out that it is almost unprecedented, if not unprecedented, in Iranian cinema.

Rahman 1400

This is probably the most outrageous film of the last year. The high sales of “Rahman 1400” at the box office had not reached less than a month before the film was pulled down from the screen for auditing reasons. Some time later, a smuggled version of the film was leaked, and finally, a while ago, there was an opportunity to watch the approved and legal version on the home theater network.
A low-ranking employee of an office who does not have a decent living situation, when he realizes that he will not live very long due to illness, plots with one of his colleagues to make him be killed by the grandson of the boss and secure his family’s future with ransom money. But nothing is going according to plan and things are getting worse.
The movie “Rahman 1400” is a strange mixture of the tricks of the day in the society and the Iranian comedy movie market, of course, it is far from expected. Both Mohammad Reza Golzar and Mehran are the directors who, despite their relatively short presence, have had the largest share of the film’s advertisements. It deals with the political and social issues of the day, on fringe issues such as corruption, hypocrisy, class divisions and sexual problems. After all, it’s like a crowded party where guests do not need to know exactly what is going on but are going to have fun.

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