[4][5] Influenced by predominantly leftist and communist ideologies that were common among the intelligentsia of his era‌, which made him popular among the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (an Iranian communist organization), his books typically portrayed the lives of the children of the urban poor and encouraged the individual to change his/her circumstances by her own initiatives.

He was born on June 24, 1939, in the neighborhood of Charandab in the city of Tabriz, Imperial State of Iran.

His father eventually left Iran like millions of other workers on the move for better life conditions for the Caucasus and never returned.

[8] Apart from children's stories, he wrote many pedagogical essays and collected and published several samples of oral Azerbaijani literature.

Behrangi also has a few Azerbaijani language translations of Persian poems by Ahmad Shamlou, Forough Farrokhzad, and Mehdi Akhavan-Sales.