Who stars in Jangale Asphalt?

Navid Mohammadzadeh leads, with Amir Jafari, Merila Zarei, and Fereshteh Hosseini, directed by Pejman Teymourtash. It streams on K-Time in Persian, no VPN.

A hard-edged social drama — pressure, family, and the spiral that starts when one risk leads to the next.

Jangale Asphalt — Navid Mohammadzadeh in a Hard-Edged 2024 Drama, on K-Time

A brother's life, a sum of money that can't be raised honestly, and a gamble that won't stay small. Navid Mohammadzadeh does what he does best — desperation with a pulse.

If you’ve followed Iranian cinema for the last decade, you’ve watched Navid Mohammadzadeh corner the market on characters under unbearable pressure. Jangale Asphalt — جنگل آسفالت — puts him back there.

What it’s about

Hengameh needs money — urgently, to save a brother’s life. There is no honest way to raise it fast enough, so a risk is taken; and as always in this kind of story, one risk does not stay one. Director Pejman Teymourtash builds a tense social drama out of a simple, brutal arithmetic: a life on one side, an impossible sum on the other.

The cast around Mohammadzadeh is strong — Amir Jafari, Merila Zarei, and Fereshteh Hosseini.

Why watch it

This is the urban-pressure-cooker mode of Iranian drama, the lineage that runs through a decade of the country’s best films. It doesn’t reach for a twist; it reaches for the moment a decent person runs out of decent options. Mohammadzadeh makes that moment land every time.

Watching on K-Time

Jangale Asphalt streams on K-Time in Persian, full quality, on Android TV, Fire TV, Google TV, and Nvidia Shield — no VPN, no geo-block. New episodes land as they air.