Shahrzad: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The bureaucrat, Bozorg agha is the head of a very powerful mafia syndicate who had a strong role in the coup d'état against Dr. Mosaddegh's legal governmental administration on 18 August 1953. The son and daughter of Bozorg Agha's two freshmen, Shahrzad and Farhad, are about to get married. During the coup chaos, Farhad gets arrested and sentenced to death. Bozorg agha uses the influence he has amongst the coup heads to set Farhad free but in return orders Shahrzad, whom he knows different to other girls, to marry his nephew, Ghobad, whom is also his daughter, Shirin's husband instead of Farhad. The point is that Shirin is sterile and this has caused a lot of dispute and conflict in the marriage life of Shirin and Ghobad, her cousin. Based on such circumstances, a dramatic romance story is formed in which Shahrzad whose a medical student and loves Farhad has no choice but to overcome and cope with undesired situations of which is the beginning of a series of love incidents.

Series details

• Title: Shahrzad
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Persian
• Genres: Drama, Romance
• Premiere date: 2015-10-14
• Final broadcast date listed: 2018-06-11
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: shahrzadseries.com
• Network country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 13256
• TVDB ID: 303403

Cast and credited roles

• Shahab Hosseini — Ghobad
• Taraneh Alidoosti — Shahrzad
• Mostafa Zamani — Farhad
• Soheila Razavi — Parvin
• Ghazal shakeri — Roya
• Amirhossein Rostami — Babak
• Fariba Motekhasses — Marzieh
• Gelareh Abbasi — Akram
• Parinaz Izadyar — Shirin
• Abolfazl Poorarab — Heshmat
• Mehdi Soltani — Hashem
• Ali Nasirian — Bozorg Agha

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2015-10-14; final listed air date 2016-05-09; episode order: 28.
• Season 2: premiered 2017-06-12; final listed air date 2017-11-06.
• Season 3: premiered 2018-01-31; final listed air date 2018-06-11.

Source and licence

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