Some men leave the army and never quite leave it behind. Marasli, a 2021 drama series with feature-length episodes, follows a former soldier who has traded his uniform for the quiet of a bookshop, until the shooting of his daughter drags him back toward the violence he thought he had walked away from.
What is Marasli about?
The man everyone calls Marasli has built himself a small, deliberately unremarkable life. Retired from military service, he runs a bookstore and keeps his past at arm's length. That arrangement collapses on the day his daughter is shot. The series picks up from that rupture and follows what a father with his particular training does when the systems around him fail to deliver answers. What begins as a personal crisis widens into something larger as Marasli's old instincts resurface and the people responsible for the attack come into view. The show gives itself room to sit with grief, loyalty and a man deciding how far he is willing to go.
About the cast
The catalogue listing for Marasli on K-Time does not carry a cast or director credit, so this page does not name the performers. What the series asks of its lead is clear enough from the premise: a character who must be convincing both as a bookish, withdrawn father and as someone whose military reflexes are never far from the surface.
Context & significance
Marasli belongs to a familiar strand of serialised drama in which a retired professional is pulled out of retirement by a wound to his family. The series first aired in 2021 and is presented in long-form episodes of roughly one hundred and twenty minutes, a format that lets each instalment function almost as a standalone film while carrying the larger arc forward. Bookshops and battlefields are unlikely neighbours, and the contrast between them, the shelves of quiet stories versus the unfinished business of a soldier's past, is the engine that drives the story. For K-Time audiences, the series comes with Persian subtitles, which makes it one of the more accessible foreign dramas in the catalogue for viewers who prefer to follow dialogue in Farsi.
Watching Marasli on Ktime
Marasli is available to stream on K-Time. This page can be read without an account, but watching the episodes requires a K-Time login. The service is designed for Persian speakers living outside Iran, with a Farsi-language interface, and this series is offered with Persian subtitles; there is no Persian dub.