Now, the acclaimed director has set her eyes on the insanely popular band BTS, also known as the Bangtan Boys, which is a seven-member South Korean boy band formed in Seoul in 2013.

The band has made quite an impressive fanbase in the world. Their Twitter alone has nearly 22 million followers, and they had the most-liked tweet worldwide last year.

Two of their albums reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Not only that, but they also sold the second-highest amount of albums among all artists in the States. They were also recognized with the Order of Cultural Merit for spreading Korean culture.

“I was recently introduced to this popular Korean band. It sounds unbelievable, but the band has 9 million fans in Iran,” said Derakhshandeh about her decision to make a movie on BTS.

“The BTS fans are really dedicated to the band. They learn the lyrics by heart and look up at the band members as role models,” she added.

“After I’m done with ‘Hush! Boys Don’t Cry!’, I will make my next movie on this band, which is very popular in Iran and across the world,” she said.

‘Hush! Boys Don’t Cry!’ focuses on boys’ issues, this time. It has been in production since 2018.

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Most of the Iranian filmmakers and film producers seek to portrait the problems of children and women, who have been overshadowed in the Iranian society.

The 10th edition of the Jagran Film Festival (JFF) will hold a Retrospective of World films and celebrate the life and works of the Iranian film director, producer, screenwriter, and researcher Pouran Derakhshandeh. Filmmaker’s finest award-winning movies like Hush! Girls Don’t Scream, Under the Smokey Roof, Eternal Children and Wet Dream will be screened at the festival. Her films deal with societal issues like child abuse and women’s rights.

Jagran Film Festival (JFF) is an initiative by the Jagran Prakashan Group towards creating a culture of cinema appreciation and an honest and sincere attempt create a platform that connects great content with audiences across the country.

Last year, with over 18 towns, 400 screenings, and 18 cinema appreciation workshops, the festival directly touched over an audience of over 55,000 people, and the media coverage of Jagran puts the reach of JFF well beyond 50 million people across India.

In its 9th year, the Festival received great response from filmmakers internationally having received a record number of 4500 film entries. The Jagran Film Festival will start from Delhi, travelling through Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Dehradun, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Bhopal, Indore, Gorakhpur, Agra, Ludhiana, Hisar, Meerut, Raipur and finally culminates in Mumbai. This makes it geographically the largest film festival perhaps in the world.

The festival screens films across genres from around the globe. A unique feature of JFF is that the cast and crew of a few select films are invited to a discussion with the audience on various elements of the film to wherever the Festival travels. An important aspect of the festival is to generate discussions on the various aspects of Cinema and its impact on society and popular culture.

The Jagran Film Festival starts from 18th July in Delhi and will travel through Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Agra, Meerut, Dehradun, Hisar, Ludhiana, Patna, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Gorakhpur, Raipur, Indore, and Bhopal, across the 18 cities and finally culminate on 29th September in Mumbai.

Several awards would be presented to the winners in several sections including Icon of Indian Cinema, Special Contribution to Cinematic Art, Rajnigandha Achievers Award, Best Foreign Feature Film, Best Feature Film, Best Director Winner, Best Debut Director Winner, Best  Male Actor, Best Female Actor, Best Short Film, Best Screenplay, Best Background Score,  Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Cinema of the Seller (Gold), Cinema of the Seller(Silver), Cinema of the Seller(Bronze) , Best Music Director, Best Student Film as well as Best Documentary.

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