# Rebel (Iranian TV series)

Rebel (Persian: یاغی, romanized: yāği) is an Iranian Home series in the drama genre that has been made for Filimo's home Show service in 20 episodes. Mohammad Kart is the director of this series and its screenplay is written by Pedram Pouramiri, Hossein Doumari and Kart based on the novel Salto. The main actors of this series are Parsa Pirouzfar, Ali Shadman, Tannaz Tabatabaei, Amir Jafari, Niki Karimi, Farhad Aslani, Mehdi Hosseini-nia, Aban Askari, Mahlagha Bagheri, Abbas Jamshidifar, Javad Khajavi and Elika Naseri. Yaghi premiered on May 29, 1401, and ended on September 31, consisting of 20 episode. this series were well received by critics and audiences.

## Storyline

Javid (Ali Shadman) is a teenager from the lower neighborhoods of Tehran who, based on what has happened in his life, has not yet been able to have an identity card and is tired of all the hardships he has endured in his life And to be able to start a good and dignified life and marry a girl named Abra (Elika Naseri), who are interested in each other; He is looking for a way to provide evidence to the judge of requesting his identity card to prove his claim, that the late Mahmoud Ganji is his father. But for do this he has no choice but to undergo genetic testing, and to do so he needs to satisfy his paternal family, who refuse to do so. But in this way, he encounters problems and events.

## Cast

| Actor | Character | Description |
| Ali Shadman | Javid | Abra's boyfriend |
| Parsa Pirouzfar | Bahman | A rich and influential person in wrestling who owns a wrestling club. |
| Tannaz Tabatabaei | "Tala" Motallaei | Bahman' Wife |
| Amir Jafari | "Esmaeil" Ghowanlu (Nicknamed "Esi the Piggy bank") | The Fence and gambler with whom Javid works. He hold soil wrestlings in the neighborhood. |
| Niki Karimi | Shima | Bahman's last wife |
| Farhad Aslani | "Akbar" Mojallal | |
| Aban Askari | "Atefe" Ghanbarzadeh | Javid's step sister |
| Abbas Jamshidifar | "Mr. Ali" Gorgin | Esmaeil Ghowanlu's partner that has an addiction treatment center and involved in soil wrestling betting. |
| Elika Naseri | Abra | Javid's Girlfriend |
| Mahlagha Bagheri | Narges | Abra's Mother |
| Nahid Moslemi | Mrs. Ganji | Javid's Aunt |
| Mehdi Hosseini-nia | Rahman | Bahman's brother |
| Amir Reza Delavari | | |
| Javad Khajavi | Hamed | Singer of a street band |
| Nader Shahsavari | Seyyed | |
| Saman Mahkouyeh | Reza (Niknamed Reza the sludge) | Javid's buddy |
| Afshin Hassanlou | Lali | Javid's buddy |
| Towfigh Heidari | Saeid (Niknamed Saeid the wirepuller) | Javid's buddy |

## Release

The first episode of Rebel was shown on 19 May 2022, through the Filimo service, and the next episodes will be shown weekly every Thursday at 8:00 AM.

## Reception
### Reviews

Rebel has received positive reviews from critics and audiences. Vajihe Amirkhani from Hamshahri Online, in reviewing the first part of this series, praised the melody, the performance of the actors and its characterization. In his review of the first two episodes, Farbad Mateen from Zumji praised the acting of the actors and the story-telling process, but criticized some of the dialogues and long scenes of the series. He considered the depiction of "lot people and thugs" to be the style of Mohammad Kart's direction, which can be seen in his previous works. A critic in IRNA considered "its unpredictability" to be the strong point of the series and added that "the complex script of the series constantly attacks its audience and takes them to a path that they did not think of. Farid Mateen from Zumji website praised the acting of the actors and the storytelling process in his review of the first two episodes, but criticized some of the dialogues and long scenes of the series. He considered the portrayal of "lots of people and thugs" to be the style of Mohammad Kart's direction, which can be seen in his previous works. A critic in IRNA considered "its unpredictability" to be the strong point of the series and added, "the complex script of the series constantly abuses its audience. And it takes him to a path that he did not think of.
Film and TV critic Golbo Fayouzi criticized the change of the outlaw genre and added that the series "gives the wrong address and everything proceeds naively and with the least possible trust in the audience's intelligence.