Qajary Cat

Many years ago, the people of Iran were ruled by a cruel king whose thoughts revolved only around himself and his court; an authoritarian king who grew rich beyond measure while his people starved. The king fell ill and found himself on his deathbed. A pitiful, rain-soaked cat named Babri Khan, along with her kitten, accidentally enters the king’s palace and somehow gets into his room. Seeing that the room is warm and cozy, the cat leaves the kitten under the king’s bed and is about to leave the house when she stumbles upon a closed door. According to local superstition, if a cat leaves her kitten under the bed of a sick person, the latter will recover. The next day, the king recovers and begins to feel a special sympathy for the cat, making her the apple of his eye in his court. This aroused jealousy among the women of the court, and at an opportune moment, they threw the cat into a well outside the city. Now Babri Khan begins his exciting journey from the well to return to the court. It is a journey full of wonders: from meeting aliens to solving the riddle of an old blind mouse and, of course, translating the cat language into the language of a talking parrot! “The Qajar Cat” is a comic story about the plight of the Iranian people during the Qajar era, a story of resistance by an oppressed cat!