Haft Sang | |
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Also known as | Seven Stones |
Genre | Drama Romance Comedy Family |
Created by | Christopher Lloyd Steven Levitan |
Based on | Modern Family by Christopher Lloyd Steven Levitan |
Written by | Alireza Bazrafshan Sara Khosroabadi |
Directed by | Alireza Bazrafshan |
Starring | Mehdi Soltani Parviz Poorhosseini Behnam Tashakkor Farnaz Rahnama Shabnam Moghaddami Elham Pavehnejad Afshin Sangchap Amir Reza Delavari Arsalan Ghasemi |
Country of origin | Iran |
Original language | Persian |
No. of episodes | 25 |
Production | |
Running time | 45 minutes |
Production company | 20th Century Fox International Television |
Original release | |
Network | IRIB TV3 |
Release | June 29 July 31, 2014 | –
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Haft Sang (Persian: هفتسنگ; "Seven stones") is an Iranian television series by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). It began airing in 2014, one day after the beginning of Ramadan. It is an unauthorised adaptation (or, as some commentators say, shot-for-shot copy) of the American television series Modern Family. 20th Century Fox did not authorize the production of this series, due to the economic sanctions by the U.S. against Iran.[1]
The show is named after "haft sang" or lagori, a children's game. Each episode is around 40 to 50 minutes long, twice as long as each episode of the original American version. As a result, the series has been said to have a slower pace compared to the American version.[2] Some subplots in the American version are not present in Haft Sang, such as the ones that pertain to homosexuality or dating.[2]