Somewhere on the edge of a desert town, a rock falls out of the sky — and Bachegito Faramoush Nakon, Jalal Fatemi's 2015 comedy-romance, spends the rest of its running time tracing the strange, funny ripples that follow.
What is Bachegito Faramoush Nakon about?
The meteor that opens the story does more than leave a crater. Locked inside the space-rock is a chemical agent, and once it seeps into the life of the nearby city, the residents begin behaving in ways nobody can quite explain. Grown-ups act on impulses they thought they had outgrown, routines bend into absurdity, and the town's ordinary social order takes on a fairy-tale looseness. Amid the confusion, two preteens from neighbouring houses discover first love, while a bookish schoolgirl finds her own corner of the upheaval. The title — an instruction not to forget your childhood — signals where all of it is heading: a fantasy premise used to ask what adults lose when they stop remembering how they saw the world as kids.
About the cast
The film brings together two very different comic veterans. Akbar Abdi, beloved across generations of Iranian audiences, shares the screen with Farhad Aeesh, an actor and playwright whose humour tends toward the wry and theatrical. Young Parsa Moshiri holds down the children's side of the story, which matters in a film where the kids are the ones who see the strangeness most clearly.
Context & significance
Fantasy premises are relatively rare in Iranian comedy, which usually stays grounded in apartments, offices, and family gatherings, so a meteor-driven plot marks Bachegito Faramoush Nakon out from most of its 2015 contemporaries. Director Jalal Fatemi steers the science-fiction spark toward warmth rather than spectacle: the chemical from the sky is less a threat than a mirror held up to the adults of the town. The blend of childhood romance, small-city texture, and gentle absurdity gives the 91-minute film the feel of a modern fable pitched at families.
Watching Bachegito Faramoush Nakon on Ktime
Bachegito Faramoush Nakon is available on K-Time in its original Farsi. Reading this page requires nothing at all; watching takes only a signed-in K-Time account. Built for the Persian-speaking diaspora, K-Time's Farsi-first experience makes it simple to queue this one up for a family evening.