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Mahvash |
Birth name
Masumeh Azizi Borujerdi
Date of Birth
1920, Borujerd, Iran
Date of death
16 January 1961, Tehran, Iran
Mahvash (1920 - 1961)
Mahvash, born Masoumeh Azizi Borujerdi, was an Iranian singer, dancer, film actress and stage performer. She came from a poor family and was lauded as a singer (performer) of the people in the 1950s.
Mahvash is known for Progress Ladder (Nardebane taraghi, 1957), Do arus baraye se baradar (1959), The Sun Shines (Khorshid miderakhshad, 1956) and Aroos kodome? (1959).
Mahvash was born in Borujerd to a poor family. When she was a teenager, her family moved to Tehran. Mahvash lost her mother at an early age. Later she began to perform in Tehran's cabarets (Persian: kafe-i motrebi) and cafes in the late 1940s to early 1950s and drew large support from the working people.
However, there is confusion around her biography, and different accounts of what type of performances were happening at this age and where. The most common story is that she performed spicy and vulgar songs in the cabarets, on the radio and in movies. Another prevalent story is she began in a classical ruhowzi dance troupe as a dancer, pishparde singer, and actress; and she married a violinist who secured her entertainment engagements.
She gained the admiration of the masses’ by articulating in her songs the problems, difficulties, and frustrations of the common people, struggles which she knew very well. Her most famous songs involved a call and response-style singing with her male audience.
She published a book in 1957 which she termed an "autobiography" which was entitled Secrets of Sexual Fulfillment (Raz-e Kamyabi-ye Jensi). This book was more of a sex manual had pictures of her in a bathing suit and was published and widely distributed despite being prosecuted for the book in June 1960. It seems that Mahvash's ability to speak to the marginalized majority absolved her of her forays into prostitution and other publicly indecent behavior.
When Mahvash died in a car accident in 1961, her public funeral went down in Iran's history as the largest of its day, with thousands of Iranians on the streets to mark her passing. Iranian religious authorities were unwilling to accept burying her in a Muslim cemetery because as an entertainer she was considered "unclean" and "unchaste", however when the large amount of mourners celebrated her passing they relented.
She is buried in the Ibn Babawayh Cemetery in Tehran.
Filmography
Actress
What's the Difference | Ki be kiyeh (1961) Az Paris bargashteh (1960) A Girl from Esfahan | Dokhtari az Esfahan (1960) Bache naneh (1960) Cheshmehe oshaq (1960) Akharin havas (1960) Doostane yekrang (1960) Mimiram baraye pool (1960) Aroos kodome? (1959) Afsanehe shemal (1959) Two Brides for Three Brothers | Do arus baraye se baradar (1959) Cheke yek milyon toomani (1959) Yeki boud yeki naboud (1959) Shahbaji khanom (1958) Progress Ladder | Nardebane taraghi (1957) The Happy Naked One | Berahneh khoshhal (1957) Madmazel Khaleh (1957) Marjan (1956) Leyli va Majnun (1956) The Sun Shines | Khorshid miderakhshad (1956) Gomgashteh (1954)
Singing
1962 – The Lost Flower (Gole Gomshodeh), featured singing and dancing by Mahvash, with director Abbas Shabaviz
Selected works of
Mahvash
1957
Progress Ladder | Nardebane taraghi (1957)
1956
The Sun Shines | Khorshid miderakhshad (1956)
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