Gando (TV series)

Gando
Genre	Action film Crime film Social
Written by	Arash Ghaderi
Directed by	Javad Afshar
Starring	Dariush Farhang Vahid Rahbani Payam Dehkordi Farhad Ghaemian Mohammad-Reza Sharifinia Alirim Norayi Kamand Amirsoleimani Leila Otadi Pendar Akbari Niloufar Shahidi Kambiz Dirbaz Sara Khoeniha Rabe'e Oskooyi Pejman Bazeghi Jamshid jahanzadeh Majid Norouzi
Country of origin	Iran
Original language	Persian
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	30
Production
Producer	Mojtaba Amini
Production locations	Tehran Istanbul
Cinematography	Farshad Golsafidi
Original release
Network	Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting
Release	June 5, 2019 (2019-06-05)

Gando is an Iranian series made in the spy thriller genre. The first episode was broadcast on June 15, 2019 from the state network IRIB TV3. Directed by Javad Afshar and written by Arash Ghaderi, it starts a number of well-known Iranian film and TV actors such as Daryoush Farhang, Leila Otadi, Pendar Akbari, Kambiz Dirbaz, Mohammad-Reza Sharifinia. The setting of the series includes locations in Turkey and China.

Serial name

The serial's name is derived from the Balochi word for Mugger crocodile, a freshwater crocodile whose habitat extends from the Indian subcontinent to Southern Iran.

Story

From ISNA, according to the author of the series, in general, 80 percent of the story, apart from the narrative of Michael Hashemian and Jason Rezaian, was his imagination.

This isn't true that 80 percent of the text was not real, said Arash Ghaderi, author of the series During the Gando press conference. He expressed our work was based on a real case, but we needed a story for drama and storytelling. We had some real cases that we had to connect with each other through stories.