The young Bahram did not seem very interested in his family legacy, being poetry, which was pursued by his father, uncles and cousins. In high school, the Dar’ol-Fonoun, he wrote two historical plays which went on to become his preferred method of writing.At the age of 21, he did substantial research on the traditional Persian plays, particularly Ta’zieh, and by 1961 he had already spent a great deal of time studying and researching other ancient Persian and pre-Islamic culture and literature.