He started his first cinema school 1924 after arriving in Calcutta, India: after facing many difficulties he decided to move to homeland to start the first cinema school in capital where he created the first full-length persian silent film called Haji Agha, the Cinema Actor and his second movie Abi and Rabi. After traveling to India in 1927, Abdul-Hussein Sepanta was inspired to make Persian language films, of which he ended up making four.
Masud Asadollahi was a writer and actor, known for Ali Konkouri (1973), Fellow Traveler (1975) and Quarantine (1982). Cinema in homeland began to develop in 1900, when Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar was introduced to the cinematograph upon traveling to France. He ordered his chief photographer, Mirza Ibrahim Khan Akasbashi, to buy one.
