Love-stricken

Love-stricken (Persian: دل‌شدگان) is a 1992 Iranian historical drama film directed by Ali Hatami. The movie is mainly about some Iranian classical musicians in Ghajar era and their struggle to release their first Record which takes them on a journey to France. The film uses many notable Iranian actors and actresses. Among them are: Amin Tarokh, Akbar Abdi, Saeed Poursamimi, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Hashempour, Hamid Jebelli, Fathali Oveisi, Shahla Riahi, Leili Rashidi, Leila Hatami, and Anna Borkowska.

Love-stricken
International poster
Directed byAli Hatami
Written byAli Hatami
Produced byAli Hatami
StarringMohammad Ali Keshavarz
Akbar Abdi
Amin Tarokh
Saeed Poorsamimi
Faramarz Sedighi
Fathali Oveisi
Leila Hatami
CinematographyMahmoud Kalari
Edited byRuhollah Emami
Music byHossein Alizadeh
Release date
1992
Running time
91 minutes
CountryIran
LanguagePersian

Love-stricken is in celebration and praise of Iranian music. At the beginning of the film an intertitle is seen which says: "This film is dedicated to The Great Masters of Iranian Music in the millennium anniversary of Barbad". The film music was composed by famous Iranian musicians such as Hussein Alizadeh as composer and Mohammad Reza Shajarian as singer. Love-stricken was 13th film of Ali Hatami after some both commercial and artistic successes of his previous films like: Mother, Sooteh-Delan, Sattar Khan, Hajji Washington and Kamalolmolk.

Title

According to Dehkhoda dictionary, the word "Del Shodegan" is the plural form of "Delshodeh". In Persian it means "the lovelorn" or "worried" people. "love-stricken" or "love-struck" is another translation.[1]

Plot

His imperial majesty Ahmad Shah Qajar asks a group of Iranian musicians, unaffiliated with the royal court, to record a sample of Persian Classical Music on newly invented gramophone at the Conservatoire de Paris. A group of best musicians gather under the direction of Maestro Delnavaz. A singer named Taher (Amin Tarokh) also accompanies them to the journey to Paris.

They can record several gramophone discs after a lot of troubles. Taher who has fallen in love with a blind Turkish princess dies of an illness. As the others decide to come back to Iran, one of them says he wants to stay in Europe and learn "scientific music". Other members return to Iran with broken hearts, their friend's corpse and some recorded gramophone discs of Iranian treasure.

Cast

Production

Ali Hatami wrote about 4 hours of script for Love-stricken. Although all of the script was shot, but they had to edit it to a normal 90 minutes film. the actual film was shot in 19 acts, but Hatami cut out about 10 acts of it in the editing room.[2]

Music
Love-stricken
(Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Soundtrack album by
Hossein Alizadeh and Mohammad Reza Shajarian
Released2000
Length56:13

Music of the film is composed by Hossein Alizadeh (tar), Saeed Farajpouri (kamancheh), Arshad Tahmasebi (tar) and Dariush Zargari (santur). Mohammad Reza Shajarian is the lead singer of the score.[3][4] Although at first Hatami wanted Hossein Dehlavi to cooperate with Alizadeh but Dehlavi thought it would be better if Alizadeh worked on the tracks alne.[5] For the lyrics different poems of Hafiz, Fereydun Moshiri and Ali Hatami was used.[6] ٰThe soundtrack is dedicated to The Great Masters of Iranian Music in the millennium anniversary of Barbad.[7]

Track listing
No.TitleArtist(s)Length
1."Tar-o-Pud"Hossein Alizadeh2:45
2."Golchehreh"Hossein Alizadeh2:13
3."Mersieh" (Requiem)Hossein Alizadeh3:35
4."Golchehreh II"Hossein Alizadeh0:20
5."Tar-o-Pud II"Hossein Alizadeh1:15
6."Khial" (Dream)Hossein Alizadeh0:41
7."Aroosi" (The Wedding)Hossein Alizadeh0:45
8."Ziafat" (Party)Hossein Alizadeh3:55
9."Peymaneh-ye Eshgh"Hossein Alizadeh3:03
10."Delshodegan" (The Love-sticken)Hossein Alizadeh1:25
11."Tasnif-e Delshodegan" (The Ballad of Delshodegan)Hossein Alizadeh3:46
12."Omid-e Eshgh"Hossein Alizadeh3:55
13."Ro'ya-ye Tonbak" (The Dream of the Goblet Drum)Hossein Alizadeh1:05
14."Khatereh" (Memories)Hossein Alizadeh1:07
15."Paseban-e Harame Del"Hossein Alizadeh5:41
16."Tasnif-e Omid-e Eshgh"Hossein Alizadeh3:27
17."Orouj" (Ascension)Hossein Alizadeh2:05
18."Gholam-e Eshgh" (Love's Slave)Hossein Alizadeh4:46
19."Bazgasht" (The Return)Hossein Alizadeh2:20
20."Mersieh II" (Requiem II)Hossein Alizadeh2:28
21."Hamdeli" (Empathy)Hossein Alizadeh0:38
22."Vedaa'" (Farewell)Hossein Alizadeh0:33
23."Marsh-e Azaa" (Funeral March)Hossein Alizadeh3:17
24."Golchehtreh III"Hossein Alizadeh0:54

Other personnel
  • Aziz Sa'ati – still photographer
  • Morteza Momayez – title
  • Abdollah Eskandari – makeup artist
  • Ali Hatami – art direction
  • Ali Hatami – costume design
  • Ahmad Bakhshi – assistant director
  • Noor Mohammad Najjari – assistant director
  • Hassan Yektapanah – assistant director

Awards and nominations

Love-stricken was nominated in three categories in 1992 Fajr Film Festival as follows:[8]

  • Best Sound Recorder
  • Best Sound Mix
  • Best Music

It was also nominated in 2001 Three Continents Festival for "best film".[9]

See also

References
  1. "دلشدگان| لغتنامه دهخدا". Dehkhoda dictionary. Archived from the original on 11 May 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  2. Anari, Ali. "ناشنیده‌هایی از علی حاتمی، مرد هزار داستان سینمای ایران". Khabar Online.
  3. "Delshodeghan by M. R. SHAJARIAN & Hossein ALIZADEH". cdbaby.
  4. "آلبوم موسیقی متن فیلم دلشدگان".
  5. "تجربه دلشدگان از زبان حسین علیزاده". Fararu.com.
  6. "دلشدگان". موزیکانه.
  7. "Album cover of Delshodegan".
  8. "Del Shodegan: Awards". IMDb.
  9. "جشنواره های فيلم دلشدگان (۱۳۷۰)". Iranian Movie Database.
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