cinema trust Ahmed Talebinejad wrote in Etemad newspaper:
1- Since last year’s October when Dariush Mehrjooi and his wife Mrs. Vahida Mohammadifar were slaughtered in such a heinous way, this question has arisen in the minds of many people, what was the sin of these two people?
Did they commit a mistake that caused them to suffer this painful punishment, or is this murder one of the usual murders in large cities and regions.
Another question is that if these two people were not Mehrjooi and his wife and they were two ordinary people, would the police, judiciary and relevant institutions have simply passed by or at least provided the public with the investigation report. Unfortunately, nothing has happened and everything is shrouded in ambiguity. Even about the events after the incident, there is a painful silence and according to the politicians, there is a meaningful silence, that Mona is the only memory of Vahidah Mehrjooi and Dariush Mehrjooi who went to a party in Karaj that terrible night and returned home when he was confronted with the scene of the heinous murder. Someone came to her and who reported the matter to the police, we don’t know why Mona is not talking and whether she is under pressure from somewhere or she is possessed by a terrible fear that, as the old saying goes, she is speechless. All these questions can become different in the mind and anyone can make an interpretation on this tragedy, even though the results of the court have been announced, people’s minds are not convinced about what happened.
2-Anyway, Mr. Mehrjooi passed away as a prominent filmmaker, but what place Mehrjooi has in the history of Iranian and world cinema is important in my opinion, Mehrjooi was one of the few artists who has no real replacement and his empty place in Iranian cinema It is felt with all the heart. It is possible that there will be a fake version for him, just like when Ali Hatami died while he was still alive and some people tried to become him, but they failed. Sometimes I think that in this era of make and sell cinema, an era when the cinema industry has turned into superficial and vulgar shows with ridiculous and hideous dances, could Dariush Mehrjoui continue his artistic life?
The reality shows that he could not continue, because his recent films were not so convincing for the elite class and elites of the society, one felt that they were not Mehrjooi films and were films of circumstances, because he wanted to convince both the elites of the society and the general audience that this happened. It did not fall, especially in the case of the movie “Laminor”, which of course, in my opinion, was an average movie. But it failed at the box office, however, in my opinion, Laminor’s view of the youth and music was deep and not a slogan. I have always said that Mehrjooi finds depth in any subject he touches, even when he makes the movie “Naranjapoosh” about garbage, despite The fact that this film is not placed next to his masterpieces, but the different look at garbage and the environment in the film is quite famous, even in simple and customized films like Orange Dressed, we see a deep and philosophical view. He had a different point of view from the movie Gav, that is, he chose the simple issues of life and had a different look at it, he always went beyond the surface in his works to reach the depth. There is such a view in the works of Iranian filmmakers, even in the simple film “Shirk”, which is one of the lesser known films of Mehrjoui, a deep philosophical aspect can be seen, or in the film Pari with a young girl, we are faced with the awe of the veiled girls of the sixties who are in a kind of confusion. It is that this film does not only contain a philosophical view, this film both then and now shows that young people are indecisive and hanging, in a scene of the film, the cry of Niki Karimi in the well is the cry of a generation. Mehrjoui’s cinema is meaningful, without forcing and showing off, it showed us the world after the everyday reality. The characters of Mehrjooi’s movie are looking for peace in all of his movies, except Almas 33, which is a different story and was an imitation movie that he made to prove himself. But fortunately, his work path diverged with Dr. Saedi, and the cow became a masterpiece of Iranian cinema, a film that has had a great historical role and is still conceptually fresh and will remain fresh forever. In the cow, it shows the position of man with work tools, which represents man today and the future.
3- What is regrettable (murder is heinous anyway) we lost a filmmaker whose role in the history of Iranian cinema was beyond the ordinary and simple role. The filmmakers of his generation were trendsetters, but the reality is that their trends ended in misdirection, but Mehrjooi, despite his shortcomings, left a path for Iranian cinema and the next generation, which ended in redemption.
For example, Asghar Farhadi, a sophisticated cinematographer, owes a lot to Mehrjooi, he himself admitted this in the Moj Nu documentary. On the day when we were making the new wave documentary, I told Farhadi, who was standing in front of Mehrjooi with the attitude of a teacher and student, to deal with him a little more challenging, Farhadi replied to me, “Is that okay?” He is the biggest filmmaker of the country, how can I owe him?
Today, we see the result of Mehrjooi in filmmakers such as Kianoush Ayari and Asghar Farhadi, Mehrjooi was a trendsetting filmmaker thirty years later, even a century later, some of his films, such as Hamon, are still fresher and brighter. Mehrjooi’s loss is very important and bittersweet for me, although the manner in which he died is very important. I don’t know what will happen with his murder, but I know that the moon will not stay behind the clouds and one day the truth will come out.
4. And the last point, which is sad, is that Mehrjooi, Taqwai and Kimiyai were from a generation that respected literature and their best works are adaptations from literature. 90% of Mehrjooi’s works have literary support, Mehrjooi was always reading and taking notes so that he could Based on the book he reads, write and make a screenplay, I don’t know in this situation, especially among the young generation, is there anyone who goes to classical literature and today’s modern literature? One of the regrets is that it doesn’t seem like a replacement can be found for him in this field.