Mahaya Petrosian's note to Farimah Farjami
In this situation, many are definitely willing to give up early

From Cinemadaily instagram page
25 June 2023

"..Farjami always moved on the edge of forgetting and memory. In a situation where they wanted her removed because of her face, she would emerge and shine. Maybe she and Susan Taslimi were two clear examples of the artists whose beauty and strength in making roles had a tormenting effect on the custodians of ethics and culture! Taslimi left Iran and Farjami was forced to live in seclusion. They have told of her distorted memory and the deep loneliness she endured.. Even when they brought her to the 'shop and market' of a TV, they wanted to ruin some people through her, which is another story in itself.. Now she is in a coma.. The question is, hasn't she been in coma all these years? Is coma simply a clinical and medical condition? She came from the heart of youth and enthusiasm and suddenly disappeared in the fog. Her beauty did not get in her way, but others got in the way of her work and of course her beauty and being.. Farimah Farjami has been in a coma for more than twenty years.--M. Yazdani Khorram's Instagram page

*****

Beautiful and brilliant Farimah, your career is full of films and lasting and exceptional roles... I wish you loved "yourself" the way the "camera" and art lovers loved you... -- Mahaya Petrosian


A scene with Farimah Farjami from "The Red Line"

At the same time as the news of the actress Farimah Farjami's illness and lying in a coma was published, Mahaya Petrosian, who co-starred with her in The Last Act, wrote in an instagram note:

"Beautiful and brilliant Farimah, your career is full of films and lasting and exceptional roles. I wish you loved "yourself" the way the "camera" and art lovers loved you.. Dear Farimah, what I remember about you forever is your stunning beauty and your extraordinary artistic abilities. During the days of our collaboration in The Last Act, I could clearly see how you tried to choose the best and most correct ideas with great rigor and obsession, and how easily you passed over many other ideas... I was at the beginning of my career in the cinema, and you were at the peak and shining..., being at the peak was so difficult then that only those who worked in the eighties and early nineties know how it really was."
 

Farimah Farjami and Mahaya Petrosian in a scene from The Last Act

Being a "star" in Iranian cinema is different from everywhere in the world, not only from European and American, but even from Asian countries! In fact, "star" and "superstar" here is only a name... and in the eighties the situation was much worse than it is today! A situation in which misplaced and crushing sensitivities cast a wide shadow on the personal life and individuality and independence of artists..., the prohibition of taking high salaries, also in situations where the films of that artist were successful at the box office one after the other, and in fact the person's lack of enjoying success in his/her work.. choosing the most unattractive photos and the worst looking posters and the most boring billboards, so that even the artist in question cannot be identified! and so on and so forth(These conditions were far more serious for women)


Farjami in a scene from "The Lead"

In this surreal era, you shined... but every human being will finally one day be disintegrated and broken by "Sisyphean" efforts..., in this cultural atmosphere where art only has had a turtle-like movement during several decades and sometimes it even easily backslides, so that all the efforts of people in this profession become completely fruitless; in this space, many are definitely willing to give up early..

Beautiful and brilliant Farimah, your career is full of films and lasting and exceptional roles... I wish you loved "yourself" the way the "camera" and art lovers loved you...

"I love you, for all the impossible things you made possible and for all the things that could have happened but didn't."

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