He was born on September 21, 1979 in the City of Sanandaj, Kurdistan. Throughout high school, his deep love and passion for the colourful world of cinema drove him to take full advantage of the limited resources available to him in his hometown at the time. In his early twenties, he became active in a number of local theatre groups as well as in the Sanandaj Chapter of the Iranian Young Cinema Society where he pursued photography and filmmaking. During this period, he wrote, produced and directed a number of short films using the family camera.