ARABIAN NIGHTS
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Brothers
Qasim and Alibaba live side by side in the city of Baghdad
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but Qasim
does not keep contact with Alibaba, who is poor and he
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feels that
there cannot be any relationship between the rich and the
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poor. One
morning when there is not a grain of rice in Alibaba’s
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house, he
goes to Qasim but is turned out. Alibaba’s son Mansoor
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(Robin
Majumdar) is seen that night at Qasim’s palace, dagger in
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hand ready
to kill his uncle and end his tyranny. Qasim’s slave
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girl Salma
(KANAN) stops him from committing the crime and tells
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him that
individual killings would not remove the disparity between
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the rich and
poor. Mansoor is moved by her words and goes back
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but he cannot
forget the exquisite beauty that Salma is…………
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Fortune plays
a curious trick on the fate of the brothers and Alibaba
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comes to
occupy Qasim’s palace and live happily with family. His
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son Mansoor
is not happy and dreams of a society free from want
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and hunger.
He believes in equality and wants to release the slaves
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of his
father. A dispute crops up and Mansoor leaves the luxuries
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and comforts
of the house to lead an unknown life. Only Salma
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knows his
whereabouts and the two meet secretly in the dead
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of night.
Suddenly Alibaba faces with danger with bandits in his
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house and
Salma comes running to Mansoor for help. He
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accompanies
her to his own house and the bandits are killed by
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Salma with
Mansoor’s assistance. Happy Alibaba frees Salma
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from slavery
but she is not happy, she has no place to go to. A
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re union
between father and son has taken place and Alibaba
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fixes up his
son’s marriage with the daughter of an
Ujeer……
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Salma leaves,
her dream of a home with Mansoor is shattered
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and she
begins an apparently never ending journey across the
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arid lands.
Will Mansoor come to take her back
???
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