Esmaeel Khalaj (born 1936, fa, اسماعیل خلج) is an Iranian playwright and film and television writer, director and actor. He was born in Astara, but went to

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

and studied acting under the Iranian acting teacher and director, Abdolhossein Nooshin. He started to write plays in the 1970s. In his plays, he has a very naturalistic worldview and bitter language. In fact, he is under the influence of European nineteenth-century

realism Realism, Realistic, or Realists may refer to: In the arts *Realism (arts), the general attempt to depict subjects truthfully in different forms of the arts Arts movements related to realism include: *Classical Realism *Literary realism, a move ...

and naturalism. Most places in his plays are coffeehouses and dirty places from downtown. His characters are prostitutes, pimps, thieves and illiterate people. These characters use a simple and sometimes rude language, but at the same time they think about very difficult problems like death and life.Esmeel Khalaj's Plays
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Some of his plays

* ''Hangout'' (1971) * ''Pimp'' (1971) * ''How are You Doing, Mash Rahim?'' (1971) * ''Mrs. Goldooneh'' (1971) * ''Friday Killing'' (1973) * ''Obeid Zakani'' (1977) * ''Shabat'' (1977)

External links

*
Esmaeel Khalaj
at sourehcinema

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khalej, Esmaeel Iranian dramatists and playwrights People from Astara, Iran Living people 1936 births Iranian male film actors