A murder in Iran on Sunday sent shock waves among film buffs in Kerala. Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui, who along with his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar, was found murdered at their house on Sunday, was the toast of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) delegates in 2015. The filmmaker was here to receive the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award that year, when the IFFK also honoured him with a retrospective of his films.
Their daughter found the couple dead with multiple stab wounds to the neck inside their home in Tehran on Sunday. Though there have been reports of some online threats against the filmmaker, investigators have not yet pointed at any suspects.
