Although "Ghahveh Talkh" started out as a historical comedy, after a few episodes it became a mirror which reflected the problems and issues of modern Iran. I, as a person who was born and who has lived most of my life in Iran, became very much glad to watch this show.
When I watch "Ghahveh Talkh" I really don't feel that I am watching some historical comedy. Instead I feel it is showing, i.e. in a funny way, how we live in this country. It is actually trying to show today's problems and issues of Iran so that maybe we become more aware of them and maybe change ourselves.
For example most people in Iran have a very absurd definition of work in their minds which is: "work is a place where we go every morning and come back home from there and at the end of the month we receive an amount money from it". You readers who have not lived in this country might not believe this, but this definition has had a great effect on Iran. Thus most employees (of especially governmental organizations) don't care about doing much at the office. Although they stay at the office for 8 to 10 hours, the amount of work done barely reaches an hour's work! In the same way, most people of this country try to become employees with monthly salary since they know they barely have to work!
Ghahveh Talkh has addressed this very issue in 3 episodes and has tried to show that working means "doing something" and not some place which we go everyday so that we can receive money at the end of the month from it (you cannot understand such problem unless you have lived for some long years in Iran and worked in Iran's employee environment)!
Another example can be flattery. As far as I know people of Iran are much more flattery than most western nations! They tend to exaggerate and flatter for many small reasons. Giving a clear picture of what I mean is very hard, but if you are really up to it you can find many good books on Iranian's today attitudes and behaviors. Anyhow, aside its benefits, this feature of us has lead us to many troubles and problems and "Ghahveh Talkh" has tried to show this feature of Iranians and make us more aware of what we are doing to ourselves by too much flattery.
To make a long story short, "Ghahveh Talkh" does not have much historical resemblance from many aspects, excluding the appearance of actors and scenes, to the time which it says the story is happening in it. It is actually illustrating modern Iran under the mask of historical pre-Ghajar Iran.
When I watch "Ghahveh Talkh" I really don't feel that I am watching some historical comedy. Instead I feel it is showing, i.e. in a funny way, how we live in this country. It is actually trying to show today's problems and issues of Iran so that maybe we become more aware of them and maybe change ourselves.
For example most people in Iran have a very absurd definition of work in their minds which is: "work is a place where we go every morning and come back home from there and at the end of the month we receive an amount money from it". You readers who have not lived in this country might not believe this, but this definition has had a great effect on Iran. Thus most employees (of especially governmental organizations) don't care about doing much at the office. Although they stay at the office for 8 to 10 hours, the amount of work done barely reaches an hour's work! In the same way, most people of this country try to become employees with monthly salary since they know they barely have to work!
Ghahveh Talkh has addressed this very issue in 3 episodes and has tried to show that working means "doing something" and not some place which we go everyday so that we can receive money at the end of the month from it (you cannot understand such problem unless you have lived for some long years in Iran and worked in Iran's employee environment)!
Another example can be flattery. As far as I know people of Iran are much more flattery than most western nations! They tend to exaggerate and flatter for many small reasons. Giving a clear picture of what I mean is very hard, but if you are really up to it you can find many good books on Iranian's today attitudes and behaviors. Anyhow, aside its benefits, this feature of us has lead us to many troubles and problems and "Ghahveh Talkh" has tried to show this feature of Iranians and make us more aware of what we are doing to ourselves by too much flattery.
To make a long story short, "Ghahveh Talkh" does not have much historical resemblance from many aspects, excluding the appearance of actors and scenes, to the time which it says the story is happening in it. It is actually illustrating modern Iran under the mask of historical pre-Ghajar Iran.
