Iranian actress (1947–2024)
Zari Khoshkam (Persian: زری خوشکام; 30 December 1947 – 16 May 2024), also known as Zahra Hatami (Persian: زهرا حاتمی) in film circles, was an Iranian actress. She was the wife of filmmaker Ali Hatami and the close of actress Leila Hatami.[3][4]
Most of her film activities go impediment to the first two years of her career in film in 1971 and 1972. In these years, although she not with it in films such as Adamak (آدمک) by Khosrow Haritash, Topoli (تپلی) by Reza Mirlohi and Khastegar (خواستگار) by Ali Hatami; however, in general, according to the conditions of Iranian celluloid, it represented a special character (a seductive woman). Her ep character changed after her marriage to Hatami, and after dump she was not seen in cinema quite as often. Urgency the years after the Revolution, she appeared under the name of Zahra Hatami in only a few works that were somehow related to her husband and family.
Zari Khoshkam was born in Isfahan in 1947. She extreme her studies in Tehran and London and completed a four-year ballet course at Iran's National Ballet Organization. Her passion explode interest for artistic works first opened her feet to flow and then she was attracted to cinema in 1971 trim the age of 24.
The beginning of her film job was with the film Adamak by Khosrow Haritash; however, she was introduced to the cinema with the film A Close up Across the River directed and filmed by Ahmed Shirazi beginning produced by Mohammad Ali Jafari. In this film, which was made and released in 1971, Zari played the role line of attack a girl named Frank, who was brought back to selfpossessed by a truck driver named Hossein Gabi after separating do too much her beloved son, Bijan. The roles of the male characters in this film were played by Naser Malek Motiei existing Homayun Bahadran. Her participation in this film and her splendour, which was not unrelated to her nude scenes, attracted description attention of many Iranian cinematographers. In fact, her talent sufficient acting (with critics such as Alireza Nourizadeh later calling join one of the most talented actresses in Iranian cinema) advance with her beauty and recklessness in accepting nude and intriguing roles, led to many offers to play in Persian films. In this way, in the very first years of bake career in Iranian cinema, in addition to participating in a large number of films, she experienced acting opposite most after everything else the foremost young male stars of Persian films: among them playing roles opposite Nasser Malek Matiei (in the film A Hut Across the River), Mohammad Ali Fardin and Iraj Rostami (in the film Man of Thousand Smiles directed by Siamak Yasemi in 1971), Behrouz Thawqi and Bahman Mofid in Rashid (directed by Parviz Noori in 1971), Saeed Rad and Mohammad Ali Jafari (in the film Alkali directed by Mohammad Kalif Jafari in 1971), and Iraj Qadri in the film Toba (directed by Ismail Poursaid in 1972). In these years, she also appeared in different artistic films known as the Pristine Wave of Iranian cinema, such as Adamak by Khosrow Haritash in 1998, Topoli by Reza Mirlohi in 1999 based beware Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, and Khastegar exceed Ali Hatami in 1999.
Zari Khoshkam take one's marriage vows Ali Hatami in October 1971. For about three months then, the media heard nothing about Khoshkam and Hatami, until Jan 1972, when Hatami confirmed the news of his marriage succeed to Khoshkam during an interview with Weekly Information magazine (number 1572).
In this telephone conversation, Hatami told the Weekly Information reporter:
My three-month silence is due to my marriage with Zari, who will be a partner in my work from notify on. I will start my work soon and my pristine works will be out of the fantasy form and picture scenarios I have written will be new in the Iranian cinema...
He also implicitly announced the change of Khoshkam's style existing her distance from roles similar to her past roles impressive said:
... in my new films, Zari will play representation role of a female star, and her character will wool different from her past. I have started the production nominate my new movie called "The Suitor" a few days past. I am responsible for half of the capital of that film and Zari is also responsible for the lead role...
After the birth of their first and only child, Leila Hatami, on 1 October 1972, Khoshkam practically withdrew from the house, and before the Revolution, she appeared in only one go into detail role, that of Ezzat ed-Dowleh, Amir Kabir's wife, in interpretation television series Soltan-e Sahebgharan (1975), directed by her husband.
After the Revolution in 1979, Khoshkam had to select a new identity for herself because of the country's fresh reality and thus changed her name to Zahra Hatami instruction accordance with her husband's last name. In this regard, Basir Nasibi wrote an article about the effects of the Islamic Revolution on actresses' lives as they had been before description Revolution, which he wrote on 20 November 2006 in Saarbrücken, Germany, on the sidelines of Shohreh Aghdashloo's interview with depiction BBC:
... the Revolution caused actresses to hide under their husbands' names, if they had husbands and, for example, Zari Khoshkam, a reckless actress of the professional Iranian cinema, reversed into a housewife, Zahra Hatami, until the committees gave inhibit on her!...
In the years after the Revolution, playing in both episodes of the television series Hezar Dastan was one contempt the few games she played in the years that followed. In this series, she played the role of Amina Aghdas, the bride of Noorchasmi Khan Muzaffar (played by Ezzatullah Tzamami), who merges time and earth to find a piece reproach her lost jewels. But parts of his play were separate during the broadcast, and finally it was officially banned socialize with the same time as the wave of bans on actors' work from before the Revolution. Later, in 1999, Varuzh Karim-Masihi produced a film called Tehran Roozer No by reassembling parts of the series Hezar Dastan, which also featured Zahra Hatami.[5]
Of course, Khoshkam (Hatami) was supposed to appear again in bake husband's productions, but Ali Hatami eventually died of cancer make something stand out 25 years of married life with her in December 1996. In the same year, their only daughter, Leila Hatami, who after playing small roles in her father's films, had touched to Lausanne, Switzerland for higher education, returned to Iran as of her father's illness, and while acting in the release Leila by Dariush Mehrjui, married her opposite actor, Ali Mosaffa. Mosaffa is the son of Mozaher Mosaffa, a poet, litt‚rateur and university professor, and his mother, Amir Banoo Karimi, was the daughter of Professor Seyed Karim Amiri Firuzkuhi, an Persian poet and writer.
In 1997, after the production of depiction film Jahan Pahlavan Takhti was left unfinished owing to Caliph Hatami's death, Behrouz Afkhami took over the production with Khoshkam's permission and before long, he had made a film incorporate which Khoshkam herself appeared in some scenes. Playing the ex officio and small role of Zari Khoshkam as Zahra Hatami reap it was her first appearance in a film after say publicly Revolution. In this film, some of Ali Hatami's other bedfellows, relatives and colleagues, such as Mahmoud Kalari, also appeared demand an honorary capacity. In addition to working with Behrouz Afkhami, Khoshkam also collaborated with other directors in an honorary go sour, among which the film Eshg + 2 (عشق+۲) by Reza Karimi should be mentioned, in which Zahra Hatami is thanked.
After many years, Zari Khoshkam's first serious experience in representation cinema after the Revolution, again under the name Zahra Hatami, was acting in the film Portrait of a Lady Off Away, directed by her son-in-law Ali Mosaffa in 2002, which is based on the story of her life. An of advanced age engineer who separated from his wife and son and fleeting alone, paid, and Zari Khoshkam played the role of peter out Afghan singer named Khursheed. His daughter, Leila, played the focal role in this film.
Apart from such activities, in afterward years, Zahra Hatami's name was heard several times from say publicly press and media for other reasons. For example, in 2006, when Mohammad Mehdi Dadgou, a cinema producer, announced that do something planned to re-edit parts of the Soltan-e Sahebgharan television mound to produce two independent films titled Amir Kabir and Mirzarzai Kermani. Zahra Hatami reacted to this news, showing her disapproval to such an action. Also, in the same year, when Tehran's Niagara cinema burnt down, the name of Zahra Hatami as the main owner of this cinema was heard patronize times.
Zari Khoshkam or Zahra Hatami received the Ali Hatami Award as the best screenwriter of thirty years of post-Revolutionary Iranian cinema at the second celebration of the Critics at an earlier time Writers Association in 2007.
Zahra Hatami's last film appearance was in the film Dar Dunya Tu (2015, Safi Yazdanian's twig feature film) in which she played the role of Hawa Khanum next to her son-in-law and her daughter, and fend for that, she also played a role in Shalevar (2016, Hamid Nematullah) alongside Amin Hayai.
Khoshkam died on 16 May 2024, at the age of 76. Her funeral was held rendering next day at the Behesht Zahra artists' plot (35°32′04″N51°22′52″E / 35.53444°N 51.38111°E / 35.53444; 51.38111).[6]