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When protests broke out in Iran in 2009 over the fraudulent presidential election, one of the country’s leading artists stood up against the regime and its violent repression of demonstrators. Vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian recorded a song with lyrics addressed to government militias attacking people in the streets: “Lay down your guns. Come, sit down, talk, hear. Perhaps the light of humanity will get through to your heart.”
With mass protests again flaring in Iran in recent months—perhaps the most serious challenge to the fundamentalist regime since the Islamic Revolution of 1979—Shajarian’s example and solidarity with the people remain as vital as ever.
Shajarian’s life and the unique stature he attained in Iranian culture are explored in the Oscar-contending documentary The Voice of Dust and Ash, directed by first-time Iranian American filmmaker Mandana Biscotti. The director’s father had been friends with Shajarian—or “Ostad” as he is often called, an honorific meaning maestro—since before the revolution, and Biscotti grew up with his music.
“He is an Iranian national treasure,” Biscotti observed at a recent panel discussion of her film in West Hollywood. “I sought to do something to tell his story and do his legacy justice and really just tell our history. I very quickly, after starting to film, realized that his life really synced up with a lot of Iranian history and our watershed moments. And so I felt that it was very important to memorialize that in the medium.”
As the film explores, Shajarian’s first public appearances came as a boy when he recited the Quran in front of enormous crowds. This was before the 1953 coup engineered by the U.S. and Britain that toppled the prime minister and installed the Shah
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