Najoorha is a 2025 Iranian film directed by Mohammadhossein Farahbakhsh, billed as a comedy but playing closer to social drama, and streaming in Persian on K-Time. With a brisk runtime of around 80 minutes, it brings together a well-known ensemble cast in a story about a young couple, an uninvited night-time visitor, and the pressures that push educated, jobless young men toward bad decisions.
What is Najoorha about?
Behrouz and Ghoncheh have only just moved into their new house when, in the middle of the night, they find a burglar inside — and the intruder claims to know a secret about the husband. That single night cracks open a story about men whose lives have drifted off their intended course: the film's protagonists are unemployed chemistry graduates who, squeezed by money troubles at home, turn their education to producing what they should not. Friendship, panic and quiet regret run through the scenes that follow, as the characters reckon with who they have become and what they are willing to do to keep afloat. Farahbakhsh frames it all as comedy, but the humour keeps giving way to the sting of the social reality underneath.
The Ktime take
Farahbakhsh's premise — graduates with degrees and no jobs, drifting into a dangerous side business — is the kind of material that could be played for broad laughs or for bleak drama, and Najoorha keeps switching between the two. Critics in Iran were divided on how well that balance holds, arguing that the comedy and the serious script about graduate unemployment sometimes pull against each other rather than reinforcing one another. At around 80 minutes it moves quickly and never drags, and viewers who come for Pejman Jamshidi and Mohsen Kiaei's familiar comic chemistry will find plenty of it, threaded through a story with real social bite.
About the cast
Pejman Jamshidi and Mohsen Kiaei lead an ensemble that also includes Bijan Banafshekhah, Elmira Dehghani, Hamed Vakily, Giti Ghasemi, and Farzin Mohades. Director Mohammadhossein Farahbakhsh assembled a cast of established Iranian screen actors, with Jamshidi and Kiaei — two of the most bankable comic leads in contemporary Iranian cinema — carrying the film's shifts between farce and social drama, and each supporting player bringing a distinct register to their role.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora, Najoorha (ناجورها — literally 'the ill-fitting ones' or 'those who don't quite belong') carries an immediate resonance. The idea of living slightly out of step with expectations — social, romantic, generational — is a feeling many Iranian diaspora audiences know intimately, whether from life in Iran or from the experience of building a new life abroad. The film sits within a tradition of contemporary Iranian popular cinema that uses comedy to talk about economic pressure, giving screen time to educated young people who cannot find a footing in the job market. Released in Iranian cinemas in September 2025, it arrives at a moment when Iranian audiences both at home and overseas are hungry for stories that reflect the strain of everyday life, told with humour rather than lecture.
Watching Najoorha on Ktime
Najoorha is available to stream on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Watch on the web, on your Android TV, or on your phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, cancel anytime.