P for Pelican (پ مثل پلیکان)

P LIKE PELICAN

Cast: Seyyed Ali Mirza

Mohammad Jazayeri

With cooperation of

Boys of Tabas

Cinematography

Mohammad Zarfam

Camera Assistant

Nouroddin Nikravesh

Assistant Director

Director Javad Ganji

Sound and Dubbing Mixer

Heydar Nakhaei

Editor

Farideh Asgari

Dialogue by

Nader Ebrahimi.

Seyyed Ali Mirza

Witten and Directed by

Parviz Kimiavi

Mr. Seyyed Ali Mirza!

Who are they again?

The voice of bad boys...

They have driven me crazy.

They once came off it

and now they are back again.

What a liability!

Go away! What do you want?

Go away!

What's in calling my name?

Why do you keep calling my name?

What do you want?

Alef (akin to A) like my name...

Agh Mirza (Mr. Mirza).

This way!

This is A.

B e (Akin to B).

This way!

like the bad boys of Tabas!

Bad! The bad boys of Tabas!

Daal (akin to D). This way!

Divouneh (Crazy)!

I'm not crazy.

I'm not crazy but

there's crazy like me!

These people of Tabas

address me as crazy.

They only speak out the word, crazy!

But there's no craziness in me!

What does crazy mean?

Perceptive!

I'm percep...

I'm not imperceptive but perceptive.

I'm not crazy.

These very mean people

of Tabas have named me Crazy.

I'm one of the perceptive in Tabas.

I'm not crazy. What does crazy mean?

Crazy means a stupid person.

I own perception.

I read poems.

I compose poems.

I own perception.

What does crazy mean?

Calling me crazy is so bad.

Wingless sparrow,

if falls from his nest...

will fall into the

trap of a no good,

that unfortunate innocent!

From the father's beak,

he has been fed loving y...

a no-good feeds

him obligatorily...

If he decides to wing,

to fly beneath the sky...

he won't be allowed

and his wings will be clipped.

The wingless sparrow

was me to the world...

got beaned by the

world here and there...

Orphan from father at

the age of 3 months old inopportune!

In the midst of

a depraved group of people...

My poor mother

helpless, jobless and simple...

With unwarranted people

who are astray from rightness...

Who can do as best

among such a society!

One ought to be patient

waiting for God's mercy...

As one's own mother,

be patient with what's preordained.

Seyyed Ali Mirza!

That's enough of rage and anger!

Kaaf (akin to K in English)!

Like the one who sits on the

ground and stretches his legs!

And a branch...

a branch of a tree...

a branch of a tree over

his head stretched that way!

There is another kind of Kaaf!

Another type is laying face...

this way!

This way!

Your toes down.

Now we had two types of Kaaf's.

There are some words like Kaafar

.

Like Kaafar!

Like my Kaafar uncles

Who were apparently Muslims

but they were real Kaffar!

Kaafar!

That's it about Kaaf!

Ch-e (akin to ch

!

This way!

Underneath is like Noon

.

That's it about Ch-e!

Like Chehel .

Like I've been living in

this slum for forty years.

Chehel years.

Taa (akin to strong t in English)!

Like Tabas...

where meets deserts

and salty lands on its four sides.

Tabas.

P e (akin to p in English)!

This way!

Like...

Pedarsag (an offensive word meaning "puppy")!

Go away!

Pedarsag!

Go!

Why Pedarsag?

Can't any p found

in other words, though?

P e like pelican!

What?

P e like pelican!

What's pelican?

Come with me and let me

tell you what it is.

Do you remember Bagh-e.

Go shan (Golshan Garden)?