Top 5 films at Iran box office unveiled

Top five hits at Iranian box office from Saturday through Wednesday are unveiled, with Arash Moayerian’s ‘Khaltour’ doing the best business at the ticket window.

Top five movies at the Iranian box office from Thursday last week through Wednesday include Hossein Ghenaat’s ‘Little Heroes’ (744,800,000 rials), ‘The Girl House’ by Shahram Shah Hosseini (945,210,000 rials), Mostafa Taghizadeh’s ‘Yellow’ (1,128,180,000 rials), 'Asphyxia' by Fereydoun Jeyrani (1,617,150,000 rials) and ‘Khaltour’ by Arash Moayerian (3,497,930,000 rials).

‘Khaltour’ has been running in Iranian cinemas for three weeks, totaling 17,527,460,000 rials for its entire run.

The musical comedy ‘Khaltour’ is a Persian term applied to a singer who performs low quality music at (wedding) parties and his songs are meaningless. The word is used to describe such kind of music as well.

The story revolves around three young musicians who try not to do popular and cheesy Khaltour songs, but instead work on more prestigious pop songs. However, they have to change their mind when their works fail to gain the popularity they had anticipated.

Arash Moayerian has directed a number of movies, including ‘Take Off’ (2002), ‘Coma’ (2003), ‘Charlatan’ (2004), ‘Left-Handed’ (2005), ‘He Who Goes to Sea’ (2006), ‘Milk and Honey’ (2009), ‘The Shy Suitor’ (2010), and ‘Hectic Times’ (2011).

Aside from directing, he writes screenplays and edits films.

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