Iran film picks new stars

 3 new thespians have been set to join a biopic named ‘Takhti, The World Champion’ .

Hamid-Reza Azarang, Parivash Nazarieh, Setareh Pesyani are the new thespians who have joined the project.

Directed by Bahram Tavakkoli and produced by Saeed Malekan, the flick is currently under pre-production stage.

The script of the project has recently been completed and the shooting stage for the movie will kick off soon .

Gholamreza Takhti was born in Tehran on August 27, 1930. At the age of 15, he enrolled in Poulad club in southern Tehran and was trained to become a wrestler.

Takhti won his first Iranian championship in 1950 and later in 1951 he won a silver medal at the world freestyle championship in Helsinki. That was the first international medal ever gained by an Iranian wrestler.

He won several other medals but that is not the only reason why he is so famous and popular. He proved to be a real hero by showing such exemplary character as to being of any sort of help to the poor and needy.

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