Cast: Bahram Ziraksari, Mehdi Hashemi, Mehran Rajabi
Roozegare Gharib is a 2007 Iranian biographical drama series that chronicles the life of Dr. Mohammad Gharib, one of the founding fathers of pediatric medicine in Iran, weaving together personal memory and the sweeping transformation of Iranian healthcare across the twentieth century.
What is Roozegare Gharib about?
As his final days approach, a celebrated physician drifts back through the corridors of his own past. Scenes from a provincial childhood give way to years of study, professional struggle, and the slow building of a medical vocation in a country still defining what modern healthcare should look like. The series traces how one man's dedication quietly shaped an entire field, setting each personal milestone against the broader upheaval of Iranian society — wars, political shifts, and the painful gap between ambition and available resources. Inspired by real events, the narrative respects the documentary record while bringing warmth and human texture to the people behind the institutions.
The K-Time take
Roozegare Gharib earns its 7.1 rating through patient, unhurried storytelling — a rare quality in Iranian biographical drama. The production trusts its subject enough to let historical weight accumulate through small domestic moments rather than grand declarations, and the result is a portrait that feels both intimate and genuinely educational.
Cast & crew
Bahram Ziraksari anchors the series with a restrained, deeply felt performance as the aging Dr. Gharib, lending the character both authority and vulnerability. Mehdi Hashemi brings gravitas to a pivotal supporting role, while Mehran Rajabi rounds out the central trio with steady, credible work that keeps the period atmosphere grounded.
Context & significance
Dr. Mohammad Gharib is a towering name in Iranian medical history — the physician widely credited with establishing pediatrics as a formal discipline in Iran and founding the first specialized children's hospital in Tehran. For the Iranian diaspora, Roozegare Gharib offers something rare: a drama that honours a genuine national intellectual hero without propaganda, placing his achievements inside the contradictions of twentieth-century Iran. Viewers who grew up hearing his name in connection with children's hospitals will find this series adds depth and humanity to a figure who has been largely a statue rather than a person in collective memory.
Where & how to watch
Roozegare Gharib is available now on K-Time, streaming in original Persian audio. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone with no VPN required and no geo-blocking — K-Time reaches the diaspora wherever they live. Subscribe and cancel anytime.