Tehran, YJC. Actor says that artists need to do as they like.
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Speaking
in a meeting titled "Thanking Aref, Supporting Rouhani” in Espinas Hotel on
Monday evening, Behzad Farahani said "We artists have a request of politicians.
We want them to let us live our lives as we are not allowed to criticize statesmen.”
He
asserted "Mr. Rouhani owes us nothing, but we are the pupils of no less precious
and wise a man than Dr. Seyyed Mohammad Khatami.”
Farahani
asserted that no social stratum is harmed as much as artists, adding "The age
for censorship is over. This anti-Constitutional phenomenon, censorship, must
be eradicated. Censorship does not even spare Ferdowsi and Sadi, who are the masters
of our literature.”
He complained
that under current situations he is allowed to make plays only every 5 years
and added "I ask Messrs. Rouhani and Khatami that if they are going to appoint
a director for us, they choose someone from our nature and from our clan.”
He also
said that in the present society of Iran artists lack job security, asserting "There
must not be so much restriction on artistic activities while we observe
redlines ourselves.”