Director: Farogh Ajrame
Cast: Iloush - Fariba Khatami - Ismail Yasmin - Randa - Kahrman
Tarigh Khatakaran is a 1986 Iranian drama film directed by Farogh Ajrame, set against the backdrop of everyday working life in Tehran. The story follows two plumbers whose routine night takes an unexpected turn when a stranger arrives at their door with an urgent and seemingly simple request.
What is Tarigh Khatakaran about?
Ousta Hamid and his apprentice Mansour run a modest plumbing and repair shop in a Tehran neighborhood. Mansour is known for his gambling habit and his wandering eye, which puts him at odds with his more cautious employer. One evening as they are locking up for the night, a man pulls up to the shop in a car and pleads with Ousta Hamid to come repair a plumbing emergency at a home — that very night. Mansour objects, sensing trouble, but Ousta Hamid agrees to the job out of professional duty and goodwill. What begins as a straightforward repair call draws both men into circumstances far more complicated and fraught than either bargained for, testing their loyalties, their judgments, and the boundaries of ordinary life.
Cast & crew
The film features Iloush, Fariba Khatami, Ismail Yasmin, Randa, and Kahrman in its ensemble, with each performer anchoring a portrait of working-class Tehran life. Director Farogh Ajrame grounds the production in the social texture of the mid-1980s, drawing naturalistic performances from a cast that brings warmth and credibility to familiar urban archetypes.
Context & significance
Released in 1986, Tarigh Khatakaran belongs to a generation of Iranian social dramas that turned the camera on the lives of ordinary laborers and craftsmen at a time when the country was undergoing profound change. Films from this era often found drama in the friction between duty and self-interest, between community trust and personal temptation. For diaspora viewers, stories like this carry the texture of a Tehran they or their families once knew — the neighborhood repair shop, the midnight errand, the unspoken social contracts of the mahalleh. Watching it today is as much an act of cultural memory as it is entertainment.
Where & how to watch
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