{"id":2121489,"date":"2025-10-28T23:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2121489"},"modified":"2025-10-28T23:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:08:14","slug":"how-cast-aside-the-clouds-turns-a-forbidden-love-story-into-a-meditation-on-faith-and-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-cast-aside-the-clouds-turns-a-forbidden-love-story-into-a-meditation-on-faith-and-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018Cast Aside the Clouds\u2019 Turns a Forbidden Love Story Into a Meditation on Faith and Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As she puts her Baha\u2019i faith center stage in Cast Aside The Clouds<\/a>, don\u2019t expect director Mary Darling<\/a> to be preachy about the Prophet known as The B\u00e1b, and his unique take on world unity and peace.<\/p>\n

Darling<\/a>, who co-wrote the Tehran-set romantic thriller along with fellow Baha\u2019i and husband Clark Donnelly<\/a>, deliberately explores themes of faith, morality and forgiveness through a love story between two young Iranians: Layla (Parmiss Sehat<\/a>), a Baha\u2019i woman who faces persecution for her faith, and Dr. Sasan Naderi (Behtash Fazlali<\/a>), a young secular Muslim neurologist who treats a hospitalized Layla, only to fall in love with her.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just letting people kind of enjoy the characters for a little bit, before we drop that bomb on them,\u201d Darling tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> after a screening for the Persian and English language drama at the Hamilton Film Festival. Soon enough,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As she puts her Baha\u2019i faith center stage in Cast Aside The Clouds, don\u2019t expect director Mary Darling to be preachy about the Prophet known as The B\u00e1b, and his unique take on world unity and peace. Darling, who co-wrote the Tehran-set romantic thriller along with fellow Baha\u2019i and husband Clark Donnelly, deliberately explores themes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2121490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2121489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/How-\u2018Cast-Aside-the-Clouds-Turns-a-Forbidden-Love-Story.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121491,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121489\/revisions\/2121491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2121490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}