TEHRAN -- Director Ayyub Aqakhani plans to stage parts of the life story of the Iranian war hero Mostafa Chamran in a play entitled “The Heavy Pieces of Lead”.

“This play will chronicle an untold portion of Chamran’s life story and this is a point to increase the attraction of the play,” Aqakhani told the Persia service of IRNA on Sunday.

He said that most of the plays were previously performed about the life of Chamran lack necessary dramatic expansion.

“The plays have mostly spotlighted Chamran’s role in the victory of the Islamic Revolution and the efforts that he made during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, and also his resistant spirit, but ‘The Heavy Pieces of Lead’ will take different look at his life, which is expected to impress audience,” he added.

“The Heavy Pieces of Lead” is scheduled to premiere at the Chaharsu Hall of Tehran’s City Theater Complex during September.

Payam Dehkordi and Arefeh Lak are main members of the cast.

In 2013, filmmaker Ebrahim Hatamikia made “Che”, which depicts 48 hours of Chamran’s life on August 16 and 17, 1979 when he entered Paveh, a town in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah, to join the Iranian forces fighting against separatist Kurds.

Chamran was commander of several military operations in the warzones of Kordestan and Khuzestan regions during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. He was killed in a mortar attack in the Dehlavieh region near Ahvaz in 1981.

He had completed his Ph.D. in electronics and plasma physics with excellent grades from the University of California at Berkeley.

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