Afkhami to resume shooting “Morning Son”
Child star Arman Iranpur’s brilliant acting in the film, which mainly depicts the childhood of the late Imam Khomeini, the Founder of Islamic Republic, persuaded the crew to bring production to at least a one-year halt in order to use the older Iranpur for another stage of the film.
The project, which is being produced by Mohammadreza Sharafoddin in Oruj and the Revayat-e Fat’h studios, had previously been halted due to commercial problems. Production of the film had begun in late September 2004.
The film takes place in two stages. The first stage depicts Imam Khomeini’s childhood before the age of seven and the second stage shows him at the ages of seven and eight.
Afkhami had originally planned for two different child actors to play the role in the two periods, but Iranpur gave such an effective performance in the first stage that the director thought that replacing him would spoil the next stage.
Hedyeh Tehrani, Atila Pesyani, Mohammadreza Sharifinia, and Hadi Heidari are the main members of the cast.
Afkhami had been criticized for giving the role of Imam Khomeini’s mother to Hedyeh Tehrani, a superstar of Iranian romantic movies.
Veteran actor Jamshid Hashempur is also to put in a cameo role playing the late Imam Khomeini at 63, after he was arrested on June 4, 1963, for his famous speech against the shah and the “law of capitulation” at the Feizieh School in Qom.