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TV
series to explore life of Iran’s last shah
Saturday May 14, 2011 09:35:36 AM,
IANS
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Tehran:
An Iranian director plans to make a television series on the
private life of Iran’s last monarch Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who
ruled from 1941 to 1979, Mehr news agency reported.
Pahlavi (1919-80) was born in Tehran Oct 26, 1919. He completed
his schooling in Switzerland and returned to Iran in 1935, thereby
enrolling in a Tehran military school from which he graduated in
1938.
Pahlavi replaced his father, Reza Shah on the throne in September
1941.
Beset by cancer, the shah left Iran in January 1979 to begin a
life in exile. He lived in Egypt, Morocco, the Bahamas, and Mexico
before going to the US for treatment of lymphatic cancer.
Pahlavi died in Cairo July 27, 1980.
Now Iranian director Mohammad Reza Varzi plans to make a
television series on his private life. Titled “Puzzle of the
Shah”, the series would be broadcast through the Islamic Republic
of Iran Broadcasting.
Produced by Ali Ladoni, the 30-episode series would be written by
Farid Mostafavi.
Varzi has previously portrayed periods of Iranian history in three
TV series - “Years of the Constitution”, “Tabriz in the Fog” and
“The Western Edifice”.
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