Shila khodadad marriage shirin mohammad

The desire of a tradition-bound rug merchant’s daughter to marry an American is the pointed linchpin in Hassan Fathi’s alternately charming and overwrought Persian comedy of manners, “Marriage Iranian Style.” As a fascinating glimpse into how pop culture can sometimes do an end run around global crises, pic and its message of international tolerance has been packing ’em in in Iranian big cities during the politically inflamed summer season.

Shila khodadad marriage shirin mohammad

Pic’s export to Stateside markets may prove reasonably lucrative, especially in vid.

Shirin (Shila Khodadad) works hard to convince her conservative dad, Haj Ebrahim (Dariush Arjmand), that she should take a job outside their home in a travel agency owned by her forward-thinking Uncle Saeed (long-exiled thesp Saeed Kangarani, from “The Cycle,” in his first Iranian role in 25 years).

But when klutzy Yank David (Daniel Holmes) catches pretty Shirin’s eye at