Baba Esmaeel to tell his story for Javad in ‘Little Engineer’

Baba Esmaeel is to tell his life story for Javad in iFilm English TV’s ‘Little Engineer 1’.

“I had both a mother and a father until I was 5. We has a house and hectares and hectares of farm land and gardens and property. We had fame and fortune,” Baba Esmaeel says.

“But alas, one day my father left and never came back. In a matter of five years, I lost everything and became a stranded child working as a porter in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar,” he adds.

Don't miss the ninth episode of the 30-part series on iFilm TV tonight at 20:00 GMT and you can watch it now via the channel’s website.

The first season of the popular series, produced by Saeed Sadi and directed by Ali Ghaffari, is about a desperate woman who turns to an orphanage where she seeks refuge for her baby.

She tells the orphanage that if they turn her away, her husband will sell the child because of his gambling addiction. The orphanage names the baby boy Javad Javadi.

Javad grows up to be a kind, curious, and creative child. With plenty of determination and will power, he starts building the foundations for his success in the future.

Notable on the cast list are Behnaz Jafari, Abbas Jamshidifar, the late Parviz Pour-Hosseini, Nafiseh Roshan, Sanaz Saeedi, Youna Tadayyon, Mohammad Kasbi, Borzou Arjmand, Bahareh Rahnama, Afshin Sangchap, and Andisheh Fouladvand.

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