Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui killed in his home

Upon graduating in 1964, he started a literary magazine, the Pars Review, with other Iranians who wanted to make the contemporary Iranian literature known to the West. He wrote his first script, a love story based on an ancient Persian tale and he went back to Iran with intention of turning it into a movie. However, the project collapsed and instead he made a thriller, Diamond 33, a parody of James Bond movies. The film was technically acceptable but commercially it failed.