2 Saat Bawd, Mehrabad is a 2013 Iranian drama film directed by Alireza Farid, running 78 minutes. Anchored by a restrained performance from Pejman Bazeghi, the film follows a widow's quiet unraveling after an air crash strips her of everything she thought she knew about her marriage.
What is 2 Saat Bawd, Mehrabad about?
Sholeh's world collapses when her husband Khosro dies in a plane disaster. Sorting through his possessions afterward, she discovers photographs of a woman she has never met. Unwilling to bury her questions alongside her grief, Sholeh travels south to the provincial university town where Khosro once taught, determined to learn what — or who — existed in the life he kept hidden from her. Each conversation opens a new door onto a man she recognises less and less, forcing her to reconstruct not only his final months but the entire arc of what she believed their shared life to be.
About the cast
Pejman Bazeghi carries the film in the central role of Sholeh, delivering a performance rooted in restraint and internal tension. Director Alireza Farid, working within a quiet observational register, draws out credible grief and mounting unease with minimal stylistic interference, letting location and silence do significant narrative work.
Context & significance
Iranian cinema has a long tradition of intimate character studies that work grief and domestic silence as primary dramatic material — from the social realism of the 1990s art-house wave to the quieter genre exercises of the 2000s. 2 Saat Bawd, Mehrabad sits in this lineage, using a single woman's investigation as a lens onto the unspoken distances that can grow inside a marriage. For diaspora viewers who grew up with Iranian domestic drama or who carry memories of provincial southern Iran — its particular light, its university towns, its social codes — the film will carry an added resonance. It is a compact, unsentimental work that trusts its audience to sit with ambiguity rather than demanding resolution.
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