The story of Noor, a play that will be staged at a Bandra venue this weekend, begins 1,000 years ago in the erstwhile kingdom of Persia. Back then, according to the plot, there lived a person named Banu Noor, who was the Queen of Arbastan. It was a time when women roamed around nude and were often viewed as nothing more than objects of lust by the men around them. And Noor, the queen, felt exactly the same in the eyes of her husband.

But then she met a Sufi mystic. This person had given himself up to the cause of Allah, and had no time for worldly pleasures. As a result, he was one man who didn't view Noor as someone meant only to jump into bed with. And that made the queen fall hopelessly in love with this character, only for her repeated advances to be spurned.