Trust cinema Omid Zabanakhet wrote in Etemad newspaper: When I see “Mehdi Hashemi” in recent years, who has become almost a constant in light comedies and is placed among low-quality actors who try to make people laugh and attract audiences in any way, I feel sad and that the conditions of cinema are a burden to Every direction these years reduce and depreciate brilliant talents in the narrowness of everyday life and needs.” Mehdi Hashemi “from the end of the decade During his 40s as a student at the Faculty of Fine Arts, he became fond of theater and drama and formed a theater group with his classmate “Dariush Farhang”, who also had the same interests, and spent all the years before the revolution performing theater and experimenting. After the Zindayad Revolution, “Khosro Sinaii” was selected for the role of a passionate and revolutionary young man in his first feature film “Zande Bad/58” and was followed by the role of a miller in “The Death of Yazdgerd” by his former teacher Bahram Bayzaei. His second good luck was in entering the professional cinema, although the film was banned after a few limited screenings and was not seen that much.
The uncertain conditions of cinema and cultural filmmakers, after the revolution, prompted him and his friend “Farhang” to pursue the production of the legend of Sultan and Shaban series on TV. Although the story of this series did not refer to a specific time and place in order to avoid audits by emphasizing that it is a legend, but the humor of its situation in the gloomy atmosphere of those years and the warm and engaging presence of Hashemi alongside a group of the most talented artists such as Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Gulab Adineh , Ahmed Aghalo, Alireza Majlal, Mohammad Mati, Siavash Tahmorth and… caused the work to be seen a lot and Hashemi became a familiar and popular face for the audience. In order to establish himself and be more visible, he accepted to appear in the melodrama “Let me live/Shapoor Qarib” which, with the very good sales of the film, paved the way for Hashmi as a promising actor.
Appearing in three good social films “Out of Bounds and Canary Yellow (Rukhshan Bani Etemad)” and “Ghariba (Rahman Rezaei)” and playing the role of an ordinary person unlike Sultan and Shaban, requires a different kind of acting, which Hashemi does well So it came out. He had a good interaction with Khamsa in the role of Shikarban in the only satirical film by Kiyomarth Pourahmad “Silent Hunting”. The serious role of Dr. Heshmat, one of Mirza’s companions, with a beard and the awe of the jungles in the series “Kochok Jangali/Behrooz Afkhami” and the role of the jungle giant with a completely different make-up in the children’s-fantasy film “Ali and the forest giant/Birang and Rasam” show other aspects of his abilities. The path of Hashemi’s different experiences by playing two roles (the main famous actor and an unknown young man who goes in front of the camera for the first time) in the movie “Two Films with One” Ticket/Culture”, the role of a photographer in the special film “Naseruddin Shah Actor Cinema/Makhmalbaf” and the stubborn husband of the film “Hamsar/Fakhimzadeh” continued well and he was popular among the critics as well as a capable actor who also won the 9th Fajr Festival. He won the best acting award.
The next two collaborations with “Dariush Farhang” (the best dad in the world and diplomat) were not as successful as the previous two experiences and were not remembered much. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was given a few different roles, one of which was the doctor of the film Mujareh Khande (Yadullah Samadi). But the turning point of his television experiences was collaborating again with filmmakers like Ayari in “Ruzgar Gharib” which created a lot of field for Hashemi until the highs and lows of the role. Draw a doctor like Dr. Gharib with the help of Ayari’s realistic direction in detail. In those years, he also appeared in two series of his friend “Farhang”: “The Way of the Night” and “The Enchanted”. In the late 80s, he got luck again in the cinema and added some other good films and roles to his career. The role of a gluttonous guard who had 3 kidneys was seen a lot in Kahani’s very good movie “Nothing” with Zarif Hashmi.
The role of a lonely man who goes to work at home to support himself and his daughter in the well-made film “Agha Youssef”, the second production of “Ali Rafiei” (a very talented and old director of Tater, who unfortunately could not make another film after this film), an individual role who suffered from amnesia in the movie “Alzheimer/Motamadi”, although he was a little sidelined to his role in “Nothing”, but he had a good background for his performance. “Father’s House” was his other collaboration with Ayari, which, like the previous ones, had a brilliant result, but unfortunately, it could not be shown publicly. “Bulletproof/Kiyai” was also a good and unpretentious movie, which had similarities with “Laili Ba Man Is” in terms of storyline, and Hashmi, like most cases, had a lovely presence in it. “A Romantic Robbery/Razaviyan” and “Syanour/Shoaibi” were Hashemi’s last notable roles in the mid-nineties, and with the film “Golden Diet” he opened his feet to light films, which unfortunately do not have the dignity of an actor like Hashemi. Movies such as Texas, Solo, One and a Half Floor, White Collar, Money and Party, etc., although they have a comedy shell, they are miles away from the comedies in which Hashemi once acted. Although the economic pressures often lead the people of calculation to the path of gradually diminishing the image of their rich career in the minds of the audience with their choices. It outweighs its benefits and gradually distorts the values of a hard-earned and fruitful career. We hope that the creative and pleasant artist Mehdi Hashemi, who we have many memorable memories of in different roles in the films of the last few decades, will be healthy on the verge of 78 years old and will take more care of this valuable work.