Age: 52
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Shahab Hosseini (شهاب حسینی) is a director and actor of theater, television, and cinema who was born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran. He started his professional career by playing Amir Ghavidel's "Rokhsareh". He Nominated for Best Supporting Actor in Fajr Festival for two consecutive years in "A Candle in The Wind" by Pouran Derakhshandeh and "Salvation in Twenty minutes after Eight" by Sirous Alvand. He then won the Best Actor Award for the Fajr Festival for "The Superstar" by Tahmineh Milani. Shahab Hosseini won an Honorary Diploma of Best Supporting Actor in 2008 in Asghar Farhadi's "About Elly" movie. He also won the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival in the movie "A Separation" by Asghar Farhadi, after that he won the Best Actor award from Canne Film Festival for "The Salesman" by Asghar Farhadi. He produced his film "Resident of the Middle Class" in 2014. Among the best movies that he has played Bahram Tavakoli's "Parse Dar Meh", Kianoush Ayari's "Khaneh Pedari", "The Painting Pool" by Maziar Miri and "My Brother, Khosrow" by Soheil Biragi can be named.
A fallen king of the jinn crosses into the human world and steps into Shahr-e Rey wearing the shape of a man. The city greets him with narrow alleys, old houses, and lives that never stop moving. An old angel narrates his journey for young listeners, turning the story into a drifting, dreamlike tale. Jaloo enters the city with one purpose. He wants to understand humans. Their choices. Their silence. Their hunger for love and their talent for destroying it. Each house he enters shows a different face of humanity. Betrayal. Lies. fear. Greed. Rumors that grow into storms. Kindness that fades under pressure. Cruelty that hides behind ordinary smiles. He watches without speaking. He judges nothing. He only measures the distance between what people say and what they do. The city becomes a living map of human weakness and human desire. And Jaloo keeps moving, searching for meaning in every encounter. His path takes him through quiet homes, crowded streets, and the cold corridors of an institution where the line between truth and madness breaks apart. Every place brings him closer to understanding why humans struggle with themselves more than with any outside enemy. The story builds toward an unseen turn, but the heart of the journey lies in Jaloo’s quiet discovery. A supernatural king trying to read the soul of a city. A world larger, darker, and more fragile than he expected.
