Director: Ali Yavar
Cast: Mehdi Hashemi, Homayoun Ershadi, Shakib Shajare, Nima Shaban Nejad, Nazli Rajabpour
Sayeh Baz (سایهباز) is a 2023 Iranian drama, family, and mystery series directed by Ali Yavar, following the unraveling secrets of a powerful man whose past refuses to stay buried. Each episode runs approximately 45 minutes, building a layered portrait of wealth, memory, and consequence.
What is Sayeh Baz about?
Barzou Shams has built everything a man could want — a thriving trade empire, towering real estate projects, and a family gathered to celebrate the naming of his first grandchild. On the very night of that joyful occasion, an old acquaintance steps back into his life without warning. The encounter is not a warm reunion. The man from Barzou's past carries knowledge that begins pulling loose threads in a life that appeared seamless. As those threads unravel, buried chapters resurface — choices made long ago, debts never settled, and a version of himself he believed was gone. The series traces how a single night can fracture the careful architecture of a successful life, and what a man is willing to do to hold it together.
Cast & crew
Director Ali Yavar steers a cast of established Iranian screen veterans. Mehdi Hashemi and Homayoun Ershadi anchor the drama with weight and restraint. Shakib Shajare, Nima Shaban Nejad, Nazli Rajabpour, Shaghayegh Farahani, Mohammad Naderi, and Shabnam Gholi Khani fill out the ensemble, each representing a different facet of Barzou's world — family, business, and the ghosts of his former life.
Context & significance
Iranian drama series in the family-mystery genre have long thrived on the tension between public respectability and private reckoning. Sayeh Baz fits squarely within that tradition, exploring how the Iranian concept of face — آبرو — shapes what powerful men conceal and what eventually surfaces. For diaspora viewers who grew up watching this genre on Persian satellite channels, the show offers familiar emotional rhythms: the patriarch, the celebratory family gathering undercut by dread, and the stranger who arrives bearing unwanted truth. The series speaks to themes of legacy, guilt, and the cost of reinvention that resonate across generations of Iranian families, whether they live inside Iran or across the world.
Where & how to watch
Sayeh Baz is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone with no VPN needed and no geo-blocking — Persian-speaking viewers around the world can stream directly. Subscription includes the full catalog; cancel anytime.