The second season is currently being shot, to be released next year.
#Shahrzad tv show series#
Written by Hassan Fathi and Naghmeh Samini, the first season of this series had 28 episodes and was released from 14 October 2015 to. Shahrzad, a historical series directed by Hassan Fathi set in 1950s Iran, can be seen through this lens. In a historical narrative, what is revealed is as important as what is boldly omitted.
In Shahrzad, it is the accidental killing of a member of the mob that changes the life of the protagonists. Hired mobs played a crucial role in the streets of Tehran on the day of the Coup, creating chaos and attacking several newspapers offices. The post-Coup regime internally framed and systematically eulogized this Coup as the Revolution of the masses in favor of the Shah. The intensification of the class struggle also provided the opportunity for the CIA and MI6 to sponsor and plan a coup against Mosaddeq–internally assisted or at least morally supported by the Iran’s ruling class. This was a potentially dangerous development for the United States, as it feared that this domestic empowerment of the proletariat/peasantry would result in a foreign tilt toward the Soviet alliance. The continuation of the oil crisis and its consequent economic depression, along with the increasing class consciousness of the working class and the peasantry (especially in the northwest of Iran) intensified the class struggle between the traditional ruling class (including Shah, landowners and the clerics), the bourgeoisie, and the proletariat/peasantry. The nationalization of the oil industry led to an embargo by Britain, which in turn pushed Mosaddeq’s government to completely cut diplomatic and economic relations with the British. It also sought to address the increasing demands of peasants for land redistribution by means of limited tax reforms, forcing landowners to give twenty percent of their surplus to the government, who would then spend it for the good of the village. The National Front advocated limited judicial reforms, and the necessity of confining the authority of Shah to the limits of the Constitution of 1905. Mosaddeq was the leader of the National Front, an alliance of politicians who shared anti-imperialist sentiments toward Britain and insisted on the nationalization of the oil industry. It resulted in the toppling of the democratically elected Prime Minister, Dr. The Coup of 1953, planned and sponsored by the CIA, was initiated as the result of United States’ increasing fear of Iran’s possible turn toward communism. The following discusses in what sense and to what ends Shahrzad, the most popular Iranian television series of the last year, has contributed to this “awakening.” Mosaddeq was nominated by Time Magazine as “Man of the Year” following his role in spearheading the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry. The proliferation of narratives on the coup in recent years clearly shows that it is time for Iranians to awake from “this nightmare,” especially as the Nuclear Deal signals a new phase in Iran-US relations. It is also a Pandora’s box filled with contested narratives. It is widely depicted as a rupture in the modern history of Iran. The US-sponsored Coup of 1953 is such an event: a “nightmare” in Iranian contemporary history. “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake,” wrote James Joyce in Ulysses. A still from the popular Iranian TV show “Shahrzad,” as advertised on the Telegram messaging app (Source: )
His essays, reviews, and translations, have appeared in the International Journal of Lifelong Education, Encyclopedia Iranica, BBC Persian, the Bullet, and Radio-Zamaneh. student at the department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education in University of Toronto. The following is a guest post by Mahdi Ganjavi.
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