Aabra Ka Daabra

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Aabra Ka Daabra is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language fantasy film. It is an unofficial adaptation of the Harry Potter film series.

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Shanu, a 12-year old boy lives with his mother Shivani Singh and father Rahul Singh. Rahul is a magician and escape artist, and one fateful day he locks himself in a closed box and drops it in the ocean, failing to emerge and supposedly dying. This sudden tragedy drives Shanu and his mother to live in worse conditions, and people tease Shanu for this loss, calling him the ‘son of a loser’. However, Shanu wins a sponsored competition which grants him admission in any school he wishes. He decides on admission in Aabra Ka Daabra, a school of magic.

Upon arrival, he meets new friends, as well as school caretaker Limbu. He also meets the strict principal Rang Birangi, also referred to as RB. He studies many magic tricks in school and learns to fly on a carpet, rising the ranks to become one of the school’s top students. While in school, he comes to learn that Birangi has a tendency to sneak off somewhere at night in the nearby forest. Curious, Shanu and his friends decide to secretly track Birangi by taking an invisibility pill given by Limbu, where they finds Shanu’s father Rahul being imprisoned by Birangi, who wants him to make “amarsanjivani”, an immortality potion which he once made as a teacher at Aabra Ka Daabra.

Birangi sees Shanu and injects him with poison. To save his son, Rahul continues to make the potion and eventually cures his son. Shanu and his allies stand against Birangi and a magical duel happens, in which Birangi promises to come back for revenge and vanishes. Shanu takes her magical wand and give it to Dilbaug Singh, his guardian. Everyone celebrates their liberation from Birangi’s rule in Aabra Ka Daabra, but Birangi’s magic wand disappears magically. The movie ends with Zulu, Birangi’s demon-winged servant wondering about RB’s and mysterious disappearance of her wand.