Cast

Sohrab Pournazeri

Sohrab Pournazeri is an accomplished virtuoso multi instrumentalist as well as an award winning composer and producer. The main focus of his work in the past ten years has been reintroducing Iranian culture and history to the youth. Some of his greatest successes in this vein have been the Si and Sisad shows, two of the biggest performances in Iranian history. These two shows have been seen by more than two hundred and forty thousand people in Iran, each costing in excess of a million dollars.The format of these shows were part concert and and part theatre. They were called “concert- theatre” after the format and involved many of the most well known and popular actors and musicians. The first show, Si , was based on three separate stories in the shahnameh (book of kings) and starred Homayoun Shajarian as the singer.

The second show, Sisad, was inspired by Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and was set in the times of the Mongolian invasion of the city of Neshabur.

It is important to mention that these two projects have had a profound effect on reuniting the Iranian youth to their cultural roots and heritage.

Amir JADIDI

Amir Jadidi (born June 20, 1984) is an Iranian actor and tennis player. He is well known in Iran for his starring roles in Crazy Rook (2015), A Dragon Arrives! (2016), The Lost Strait (2018), Cold Sweat (2018) and Day Zero (2020), whereas he is best known internationally for his role as Rahim in A Hero, which won the Grand Prix at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Jadidi has won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actor at the 36th Fajr Film Festival for his performances in the war drama The Lost Strait and the sports drama Cold Sweat.

Tahmoures Pournazeri

Tahmoures Pournazeri (born 8 February 1977) is an Iranian multi-instrumentalist and Iranian traditional musician. He is a member of Shamss Ensemble since 1989, along with his father Kaykhosro Pournazeri and his brother Sohrab pournazeri.

He has been acclaimed by the U.S. Senate for composing music for the International Norooz Celebration,[1] and collaborated with artists like Joan Baez, Shujaat Hussain Khan, and the great master Mohammad Reza Shajarian. He has composed for fifteen albums covering six genres of music, participated in the Avignon Festival at the age of 15, won first honours among Young Iranian Talents at age 14, and performed with the Shams Ensemble.

Delnia aram

Delnia Aram is an Iranian American coloratura soprano, song writer and producer, bending genres and dissolving boundaries between mainstream, classical and experimental music. Her voice was recently described by the Chicago Tribune as having a "blindingly pure timbre" and climbing to "unearthly heights". Delaram has been a frequent soloist with the Los Angeles philharmonic as well as Los Angeles Master chorale and has performed with many ensembles and artists around the world.

javad ezzati

Javad Ezzati (born January 10, 1982) is an Iranian actor. He has received critical acclaim for his work in a wide range of genres. As of 2019, Ezzati's starring films have grossed 150 billion tomans and accumulated more than 18 million tickets, making him the highest-grossing actor in Iran. He has received various accolades, including two Hafez Awards, an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award and an Urban International Film Festival Award, in addition to nominations for three Crystal Simorghs and an Iran Cinema Celebration Award.

Tannaz Tabatabaie

Tannaz Tabatabaei (born May 10, 1983) is an Iranian actress. She has received various accolades, including two Crystal Simorgh for her performances in Drown (2020) and Without Her (2022) and two Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Awards for The Voices (2009) and Villa Dwellers (2017).

Early life[edit]

She has been active since 2000 with acting in Cinema, TV-Series and Theatre and started her occupation by passing Hiva-Film acting free classes.

Theatre

The Mongolians try to use the help of Neshaburian locals and find a man by the name of Ghariv whose job is to burn books. He who is our protagonist, agrees to help in exchange for riches and as he searches the city he encounters a woman by the name of Iran who with the help of her scholarly father is hiding all the books and unexpectedly falls in love with her.

Through this encounter, he starts to understand the value of books and especially the book of kings. However there are other machinations at play and as our story unravels, in a shocking final act we witness our hero betray Iran and deliver all the books to the Mongolians for a burning feast as she watches in horror and disgust. The Mongols feast and gloat as they celebrate their victory.

Through this encounter, he starts to understand the value of books and especially the book of kings. However there are other machinations at play and as our story unravels, in a shocking final act we witness our hero betray Iran and deliver all the books to the Mongolians for a burning feast as she watches in horror and disgust. The Mongols feast and gloat as they celebrate their victory.

Delnia Aram

Soprano, Actress

Tannaz Tabatabaie

Actress

Amir Jadidi

Director, Actor

Javad Ezzati

Actor

Mehran Ghafourian

Director, Actor

Manouchehr Alipour

Actor

Erfan Naseri

Actor

Nima Sokout

Actor

Music

Composers

Tahmoures Pournazeri

Sohrab Pournazeri

Mapping

C Project

Producer: Homayoun Shajarian & Sohrab Pournazeri

Writer: Naghmeh Samini

Director: Ali Asghar Dashti

A musical performance based on the poems of the Shahnameh within a multimedia framework

Strengthening national identity through focus on Iranian artistic and cultural thought

The Si Project, a collaboration between Homayoun Shajarian and Sohrab Pournazeri and managed by Tahmoures Pournazeri, successfully completed a series of 30 open-air performances in the Saadabad Palace Complex in the Iranian capital city of Tehran.

Written by Naghmeh Samini and directed by Ali Asghar Dashti with Hamid Nematollah acting as a project consultant, this performance included a number of renowned actors such as Bahram Radan, Sahar Dolatshahi, and Mehdi Pakdel.

Music for this project was performed by some of Iran's most reputable musicians including Sohrab Pournazeri (Tanbour, Setar, Kamancheh), Hossein Rezaeinia (Daf), Azad Mirzapour (Tar), Mahyar Toreihi (Santour), and Arin Keshishi (Bass Guitar), among others. Members of the Shahrzad Quartet were also present as musicians during these performances.

With the aim of restoring the Iranian national identity, the Si Project recounted three stories from the Shahnameh, using a combination of musical and theatrical performances, in addition to video-mapping on the walls of the Saadabad Palace's magnificent buildings.

Produced by Delavaz and Barana Art Institute, this project was performed in front of 4000 spectators every night, with a total audience of 120000 during its 30-night run.