Delighted

''Delighted'' ( fa, ارادتمند؛ نازنین، بهاره، تینا, Eradatmand) is an unreleased 2016 drama film written and directed by Abdolreza Kahani. Starring Mahnaz Afshar, Tannaz Tabatabaei, Aida Mahiani, Mehran Ghafourian and Sahar Dolatshahi, ''Delighted'' is the story of three Iranian women "who want to have a good time" and to attain that end, are doing their best to find rich men for themselves.

Plot

Cast

* Mahnaz Afshar as Tina
* Tannaz Tabatabaei as Bahareh
* Aida Mahiani as Nazanin
* Mehran Ghafourian as Behrouz
* Sahar Dolatshahi as Mahsa

Issues

The film is the third of Kahani's to be refused permission to be screened in Iran, after ''Over There'' in 2008 and ''We've Got Time'' in 2014. In the hopes of recovering its production costs, ''Delighted'' was scheduled to be screened in Toronto in November 2017. Kahani cancelled the screening and refunded the ticket receipts after Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance threatened to ban the domestic release of his next film—the expensive Thai-Iranian production, ''We Like You Mrs. Yaya''—if he refused to comply. "The Guidance Ministry sent a message and 'politely recommended' that the film should not be put on screen despite the fact that tickets had already been sold". All the scheduled screenings in Canada, the UK, Germany, the Czech Republic, France, and Australia were cancelled, and hopes of a Netflix deal were dashed. According to an Iranian official in late November 2017, " 'Delighted''cannot be screened inside or outside the country" absent a permit to do so.

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{{Abdolreza Kahani
Unreleased films
Censorship in Iran
Iranian drama films
Film controversies in Iran