Iranian of the Day

Yes if I was ever in a movie, I will always want to do it again!

Faramarz jaan he says he wishes another director would come "again" and fill his life "again" so he had void in his life when he played in that movie.  

My point is that these are not "child actors" in the sense that we know for Hollywood.  Hollywood child actors get paid a lot and then they don't follow through or get stuck in drugs and alchohol.  Very difficult but still some of them make it through and continue with their career.

Last week during the Iranian Film Festival there was a trilogy of Kiarostami films where he filmed some 8 or 9 year olds in Koker and then went back to film them again when they had aged and different stories.  I liked Where is Friend's Home the best, it was great!  There was a BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14 and Where is Friend's Home is number 9 on that list!  Beating such famous children films as the Wizards of Oz and Beauty and the Beast!

It was very interesting but again unlike Hollywood child actors they age and go through life without much fanfare.

Everything is sacred

Esfand Jaan

The movie was not a simple event of his life, it was the center of his life, according to this report

"او هنوز هم در آرزوی آن است که شاید روزی کارگردانی دیگر به سراغش بیاید و
او را برای بازی در فیلمی دیگر برگزیند و خلاء زندگی پرملالش را پر کند."

Esfand, according to the video

it is few years that he is clean now. you do have a point that baashu was not seen widely in iran. knowing as much as i know about how iranians are nice to famous people, my understanding was that perhaps if he was not addict, he could have had more opportunities in life because of his fame. i guess what art work from iran is famous in diaspora is not same with what is popular over there.

I missed that part.

I didn't get the addict part, didn't watch the whole thing.  If he had become an addict yes it's disappointing and can ruins one's life.  Hopefully he has come out of it now.

I don't think these "child actors" get as much "exposure".  Bashu wasn't a film that was widely seen in Iran.  Playing in a film like this for Bashu was like a month out of his life someone asked him to say this and do that and then they left and paid him some money.

Sort of like what happened to that Afghan girl and her picture which is widely seen and very famous, yet when the photographer went back to Afghanistan to see how she was doing, she was in her late 30s and had not aged well and didn't even remember or care about her picture.  She was too busy with her hard life to think about these things.

He was probably "forgotten" soon after and his addiction probably didn't have anything to do with the film.  I remember one film last year (not Iranian), forgot the name, where they went to Turkman areas and had these guys dress in "traditional" outfits and at first they were happy playing those roles but few days later on camera they said they're sick of this nonsense and stupid clothes!  They don't want to "play" anymore and asked the director to scram, on camera! 

Everything is sacred

Esfand jaan but in the clip

he did mention that he was an addict for a very long time. with the exposure that he got in that movie, he could have  done better had he not been an addict for long time. even forgetting life in the movies, do you dispute that the same person would have had a better life if he had not been an addict?

Anahid jaan I don't think he has ruined his life.

I think he is making an honest living.  Albeit an honest meager living.  Many of these kind of "child actors" are recruited to play their real lives which are meager to begin with. 

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Soosan Taslimi needs to get him not only a visa

but find him European wife too.  This guy was lucky to get that movie role but then he ruined it for himself. 

"Child actors" are mostly real people playing their life's role.

Since 1979 many of the films actors are really playing documentaries of their lives.  They don't get paid much and don't make another movie.  Many movies like Bashu that is.

Kiarostami, Panahi, Makhmalbaf, Rasouloff, Mehrjoui and many like them used this style in their movies.  This was mostly during the time when cinema was the devil as prescribed by Khomeini. 

Later many people turned to movies and then paid actors.  During Khatami movies exploded and many of today's famous actors and actresses started their careers.

They still make films with real people/characters and I love those movies.   

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Thanks for the clip

Damn RR of Iran for not giving every Khuzestani a yearly lump sum like a profit sharing from the oil revenues.

P.S even in pahlavi's era there was no such benefit

But the peoples were getting a lot of freebies.

 Maziar

Hard Life of Child Prodigies

This is not a unique story by any means and has happened a lot in Hollywood.

Not every child actor makes it as they get older and unfortunately their expectations have been set at a higher level that they can never match or exceed again. And their lives become a constant look in the rear view mirror.

These are all the responsibilities of the parents to manage.

Great report!

Many thanks. A postal address may help Adnan get fan mail from abroad.Doubt he has email.

How SAD to See

Poeple can not provide themselves a decent living because a COrruted, Criminal, Thief govenment steal everything from them.  Shame, Shame, Real shame

Bashu was/is a great film. 5 stars.

Everything is sacred