Daryoush Mehrjui and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadi Far, were killed on October 13, 2023, in their villa in Karaj. This news was confirmed on October 14th by Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour, the head of the Cinema House Board, as well as by one of the filmmakers present at the scene of the incident.The incident took place in Meshkin Dasht, Karaj, and Daryoush Mehrjui’s daughter reported the incident to the police. Official investigations regarding the perpetrators and motives of these murders have not been publicly disclosed, and further details are not available.
His last film, titled “Laminor” was added to his body of work in 2019.Prior to this incident, Vahideh Mohammadi Far, a writer and Daryoush Mehrjui’s wife, had informed on her personal social media page about anonymous personal threats and, according to her, threats from a non-Iranian individual with a knife.
