Tahmina

Tahmeena, Tahmina, Tehmina or Tahmineh (Persian: تَهمينه‎‎) is a female character in the story, Rostam and Sohrab, part of the 10th-century Persian epic of Shahnameh. Her name is mentioned as the wife of Rostam and as the daughter of Samanganshah, the sovereign of Samangan.

References in the Shahnameh

In the Shahnameh, Rostam and Sohrab's story begins when Rostam loses his horse, Rakhsh. Grieved and angry, Rostam reaches at Samangan, where he was greeted by the king, who offered him the assurance that Rakhsh was too well known for his hiding place not to be soon discovered.

The king of Samangan invites Rostam to stay for the night, therefore, he provides a lodging for the hero in his own palace.

That night, Tahmineh comes to Rostam's bedchambers and declares her love for him. The scene is so described in the Shahnama:

Rostam commands that a virtuous priest should come and crave her for him from her father. After their marriage, Rostam sleeps with Tahminah and later gives her a jewel from the band around his arm, saying:

Tahmina (film)

Tahmina (Azerbaijani: Təhminə) is a 1993 Azerbaijani romantic drama film. Screenplay was written by Anar Rzayev according to his novel The sixth floor of the 5-story building. Directed by Rasim Ojagov, this film is in drama genre depicting the love affair between a male (Zaur) from an affluent family and a divorced female trying to make her best to survive in a conservative society. The film is considered as one of the best Azerbaijani movies produced in 1990's. The funding for the film was provided by a Turkish businessman.

Plot

The romantic relationship of the main characters Zaur and Tahmina starts off with passionate affair and leads to many problems in a conservative society. Zaur (Fakhraddin Manafov), who is the son of a prominent and well-to-do professor (Professor Zeynally) falls in love with Tahmina (Meral Konrat), who is a divorced TV anchor admired by many of her colleagues and friends of Zaur's family which causes periodic jealousy on part of Zaur. Zaur is so much in love that he flies to Moscow after Tahmina when she's sent there on an assignment. Zaur's family condemns the relationship and tries to divert Zaur to a family arranged marriage with the daughter (Firangiz) of family friends. Pressure from the society and continuous calls from Zaur's mother (Zarnigar Aghakishiyeva) to Tahmina eventually lead to big problems in their relationship culminating in break up and Tahmina's suffering. Zaur listens to the advice of his parents, marries the family friend's daughter. Due to heavy drinking, Tahmina experiences problems with her liver and eventually dies during Zaur and Firangiz's honeymoon in Istanbul, Turkey. When he's back, his brother-in-law breaks the news to him. Devastated as he is, the final scene of the movie shows Zaur taking out his wife's list of products for grocery shopping and drives on to the market implying the life goes on.