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Global Star Profiles: Behrouz Vossoughi
Before the Iranian Revolution of 1979 when the Pahlavi dynasty and the Shah of Iran were overthrown and the Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Khomeini came to power, Iran had a thriving film industry known as Film Farsi. These were films much like Bollywood, that mashed up several genres with melodramatic stories, musical numbers, and superhero-like leading men.