Shadravan Movie Review
Shadravan is the second movie directed by Hosein Namazi first presented in the 40th fajr festival and now available on Televika. Shot in the suburban parts of Tehran, Shadravan is about a slum-dwelling family. Living hand to mouth by merely selling herbs, Nader, the oldest child of the family, has to pay all the expenses of his now deceased father’s hospital treatment and burial. This comedy mainly centers on this family’s effort to pay the bills for their father’s funeral. Shadravan is written and directed by Hosein Namazi and produced by Abas Naderan.
The cast:
Reza Rooygari, Bahram Ebrahimi, Roya Teymoorian,Iman Baratpoor, Sina Mehrad, Gelare Abasi, Nazanin Bayati, Behrang Alavi, Hafez Nabizadeh, Behnaz Naderi, Azam Kaboodian, Farnaz Salehtash, Elahe Afshari,Mohsen Mehri, Sajad Rezaei, Babak Jafarie, Maryam Afshar and Mohamad Moosa Akbari
What movie critics said
Reza Daemi
A poor and irresponsible dad is much of a trouble even once dead. Meanwhile, all the people related to the dead man, one way or another, try to help the family organize a reputable memorial service which most probably reminds us of Mehmane maman in which neighbours and relatives united to throw a party. Shadravan is a black comedy illustrating how Orwellian life is for poverty-stricken people.
The movie is appealing and has potentials. It stands away from misplaced levity and fecklessness. It’s a good example of observational comedy. There is a curious paradox between the bitter events of the story and a twinge of comedy in them.
Three features of Shadravan
Success in making a minimalist comedy
Extraordinary acting especially by Sina Mehrad and Nazanin Bayati
Low comedy avoidance
Seyed Arya Ghoreyshi
Appealing and involving, Shadravan has high potentials. The acting and the paradox between tone and content is exciting and unpredictable. Some of the actors, namely Behrang Alavi play quite professionally. Having said that, the film doesn’t have much to offer past the first 20 minutes or so and this shortcoming has its roots in the script’s lack of clarity and direction. The story seems stranded which is so common in Iranian movies. What is Shadravan really all about? A man’s metamorphosis from a selfish person to a devoted one? The importance of helping someone up? or an effort to release a corpse from the hospital?!
Apparently, it is about all the above-mentioned, but in practice the director hasn’t been able to link these ideas well togetherEach section of the movie deals with one aspect and all you see is incompatibility.
Three features of Shadravan
Behrang Alavi’s performance which is unlike his other roles in other films
Professional make-up
Scanty humor and fragmentary account of the story
Ali Naeimi
Shadravan is an observational movie by Hosein Namazi, a paradoxical encounter of comedy and tragedy. It’s a genre we have already seen in other directors’ films such as Reza Kahani.
Three features of Shadravan
Skillful act especially by Behrang Alavi and Sina Mehrad
The sequence in a registry for receiving an ID card
Creating comic moments
Kamal Poor Kaveh
Just like many other films produced in the contemporary cinema of Iran, Shadravan takes its audience as naïve, undemanding and uncritical!It reminds us of the soap operas of 70s in Iran like Zire Asemane Shahr with one notable difference and that is cheap and vulgar humour. Actors like Gelare Abasi and Nazanin Bayati who had only begun to make a name for themselves, ruined their reputation by appearing in this movie.
Three features of Shadravan
The devastating ending
Behrang Alavi’s different acting
The romantic relationship between the actors Gelare Abasi and Sina Mehrad which is hilarious
What the cast and crew said
Hosein Namazi
I had written an account of this story in a newspaper and decided to make a movie out of it using my own interpretation. If I feel like I have what it takes to make a film, I’ll definitely go for it. The ending of Shadravan is by no means comic, but rather melodramatic and a sweet one indeed!
Sina Mehrad
When I was offered a role in Shadravan, I admired Hosein Namazi and Abas Naderan for having taken this risk. I went through the script and weren’t concerned about my different though not challenging role.
Roya Teymoorian
Hosein Namazi and I had already worked with each other. I already knew he embarks on a new movie production after listening to many ideas and suggestions. Hence, I didn’t hesitate to play the role of Nazi. I would call it a transparent refreshing movie.
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