Paytakht (Capital) is an Iranian TV series directed by Siroos Moghaddam. portraying the life of a Mazandarani family in Aliabad village. It ran for six seasons and ninety-eight episodes over the course of nine years (2011–2020) premiering during each Nowruz, the Persian New Year, with the exception of Paytakht 4 that began in the Ramazan of 2015.
Paytakht Season 1 (2011)
A rural family from Aliabad village in Mazandaran province are planning to move to Tehran, the capital city of Iran. After arriving, they find the landlord of the home laying dead in his bed.
Paytakht Season 2 (2013)
Naghi (Mohsen Tanabandeh) receives an assignment from his boss to transport a newly made minaret to Qeshm Island in the south of Iran, to build a mosque overthere.
Paytakht Season 3 (2014)
Arastou 'falls in love' with a young girl by the name of Miss Tehrani. He wants to hold his wedding at Naghi's home but the home is still under construction. Naghi lets him hold the wedding there anyway, and ignores his worker Mousa's request to build a pillar underneath the house to prevent it collapsing. On the night of the wedding, disaster strikes and the house collapses during the celebrations.
Paytakht Season 4 (2015)
The Mamouli family face a new set of challenges after Arastou's wife Cho Chung dies in the MH370 plane crash. The season is set one year after the crash, however Arastou is still devastated and continues to mourn her death. Over the year, Arastou has grown out his beard and hair in mourning, alongside wearing black clothes. Naghi has done the same in support of his cousin. However, Naghi becomes tired of his appearance and urges Arastou to end his mourning, trim his beard, and begin to wear his colorful clothes once again.
Paytakht Season 5 (2018)
After Behboud had been missing in Africa for a long period of time during his trip, he is considered dead. his son Behtash returns from military service and starts appearing, however it upsets him when he sees Rahmat flirting with his mother Fahimeh.
Paytakht Season 6 (2020-2021)
Several months have passed. Panjali has recently died due to dyspnea during a meal, and all of his organs are donated. Naghi retires wrestling from FILA and becomes a private driver of Mr. Maleki - the city's parliamentary representative. Homa has been accepted as an anchorwoman on IRIB Mazandaran. Behtash is the 4th goalkeeper of Nassaji FC. He has wore a rugby hat, similar to Peter Cech, due to a similar injury.