Baghe Mozaffar

Baghe Mozaffar (in Persian: باغ مظفر) is an Iranian satire television series.

Credits

Directed by: Mehran Modiri
Writer-in-chief: Peiman Ghasem-khani
Genre: Satire
Running Time: about 45 minutes
Episodes: 40
Produced by: Hamid & Majid Aghagolian
Production of : Islamic Republic of Iran
Produced in : 2006 December and 2007 January

Cast

Mehran Modiri as Mozaffar khan & narrator
Siamak Ansari as Kamran
Reza Shafiei Jam as Gholmorad
Mohammad Reza Hedayati as Mansoor khan
Nader Soleimani as Bordbar
Nasrollah Radesh as Heif-e-nan
Shaghayegh Dehghan as Nazi
Sahar Ja'fari Jozani as Forough
Behnoosh Bakhtiari as Sheida
Hadi Kazemi as Nima
Ali Lakpourian as Jamshid
Saeid Pirdoost as Kambiz
Saed Hedayati as Parviz
Elika Abdolrazaghi as Nazi's mother

Description

Mehran Modiri,one of the most popular directors of satire and comedy TV series in Iran today, started to make this series in the autumn of 2006.
At first, Javad Razavian was planned to play a role in this series but instead of him, Reza Shafiei Jam appeared in Baghe Mozaffar.
The theme is about a family of masters living in a house named "Baghe Mozaffar".
Mehran Modiri has two roles in this series: He is Mozaffar Khan and also he hosts the adventures.

Plot

Siamak Ansari Stars as a Kamran, A young strange man who works in a transportation Company who is ran by Mr. Bordbaar, a fat man who easily laughs at anything. Mr Bordbaar along with his son are careless people and Kamran is the only person that is helping the company. Kamran is a shy, hard-working and strange person to the Bordbaar family. Kamran is also in love with Nazi who is Bordbaar's daughter, who is in love with her old fiance. Kamran is too shy to show his feelings for Nazi. Kamran's dad "Mozzafar Khan Zargande" is a Khan who lives his life like old Tehran Khans.

Kamran also has a sister Forough Khanoom, who is snobby, spoiled and does whatever she likes to do. She is a widow, and her past husbands have been killed by strange accidents that have something to do with how mean she is. They also have a Servant, named "Heyfe Naan" which means "worthless". He craves for punishment and foul language from his masters. They also have a sloppy, worthless lawyer, who is trying to get the family to sell the garden. According to Jamshid, the lawyer, Tehran is going to have a highway that runs through the garden and they should sell it before the price drops drastically. The Zargande family live in a huge garden which is shared by Mozzafar Khan's Cousin, Mansour Khan. Mansour Khan, suffers from short term memory-loss, hates his cousin, and is old with no family of his own. The story will go on about Kamran in pursue of his love.

Sayings

Mehran Modiri as Mozaffar Khan:

- We are dinning (Ghazā mikhorim) - Give me the jam.(morabbā bedeh bābā)

Siamak Ansari as Kamran:

- I won't divorce Nazi (man nāzi ro talāgh nemidam) - (When the cell-phone calls, Kamran says): Later (Then Kamran throws the phone) (Kamran vaghti telephone zang mizaneh : ring... ring...badan!)

Nader Soleimani as Bordbar:

- You make mistake! (to ghelat mikeni)

Mohammad Reza Hedayati as Mansour Khan:

- Wow! What a prestigious girl! Will you marry me? (ai voh! cheh khānūmeh bā shakhsiyati, bā man ezdevāj mokoni nenneh?)

Reza Shafiei Jam as Gholmorad:

- Gholmorad is laughing. Gholmorad is crying.(Gholmorād dāreh mīkhandeh. Gholmorād dāreh gerieh mīkoneh)

Criticisms against this series

Mehran Modiri is considered one of the greatest satire directors in Iran. He has made popular series like Pavarchin and Shabhaye Barareh. His work in Baghe Mozaffar has also received some criticism.

Among their criticism are:

The series has more advertisements than his previous series.
The characters of Baghe Mozaffar are not real, they are all imaginary, which is not the case for Shabhare Barare.
There were ample recommendations about paying tax, fish-eating, and reducing gas consumption.