Born in 1936 in Astara, Esmaeel Khalaj ( اسماعیل خلج ) is a Persian playwright, film and television writer, director and actor, most renowned for his plays Pimp (1971), Friday Killing (1973) and Shabat (1977) and his roles in the films Modest Reception (2012) and Scandal (2013). Moving to Tehran, he learned his trade studying under acting teaching maestro Abdolhossein Nooshin in Tehran and began writing plays in the early 70s. Khalaj's works are celebrated for their realism cynical out
...look and use of harsh language, often focusing on marginalised characters such as thieves, prostitutes, pimps and illiterate people.
Esmaeel Khalaj (اسماعیل خلج) has been a Writer in some movies:
Son of Iran Is Unaware of His Mother is about that A complex combination of three interconnected themes. A young open-minded scriptwriter tries to write a script about faith during the regin of Parthian dynasty when Iran was placed amidst the Western and Eastern cultures. The other two themes include a theater show itself as well as the private life of the young man, and his relationship with his girlfriend and his unability to make a connection with his friends. The movie follows three thoughts simultaneously: connecting to the past, present and future by performing a theater, the relation between East and West which is truly reflected by the show about the young man's life and his friends, and the most important one, that is, transcending the narrow-minded borders of East and West in order to reach humanity, which is beyond all of the borders and constraints. In this film Esmaeel Khalaj (اسماعیل خلج) collaborates with Ahoo Kheradmand (آهو خردمند), Jamshid Layegh (جمشید لایق), Ali Hejrat (علی هجرت), Reza Zhian (رضا ژیان), Sadegh Moghadasi (صادق مقدسی), Shahnaz Sahebi (شهناز صاحبی), Soheil Soozani (سهیل سوزنی), Iraj Zahri (ایرج زهری), Fereydoun Rahnama (فریدون رهنما), Fouzieh Majd - (فوزیه مجد)
