00:00It started that time was Pepsi, not Kool-Aid.
00:03Pepsi was glass, and sometime the film was,
00:06sometime the film was, you know,
00:08sometime some scene was not good for them.
00:12They put Pepsi, Kool-Aid, put in the screen.
00:16So we tried to make it plastic after that.
00:20My father was religious, and cinema was forbidden.
00:27I tried to survive.
00:28Then I went and started religious,
00:30selling religious book, but going to cinema
00:33by profit of that.
00:34There was American Grenade,
00:36it was James Hartley Chase from UK.
00:39I checked the book, the book was the name,
00:42American Grenade, literally interested.
00:45You know, because maybe some policy action, something.
00:48So I started reading that,
00:49and I find it unbelievable stories.
00:52And I was dreaming this book, I should print it,
00:56the books, and I make it my way,
00:58montage from the foreign magazine.
01:00That books, automatically some bookshops,
01:05they went and they were asking about my address.
01:10That's why I offered.
01:12I offered maybe, you know, in danger,
01:14so I tried to escape.
01:15I came 1964 from other side of the border,
01:20by boat they brought me this side,
01:22with other six, seven people,
01:24which they were also running from Iran.
01:26There was cinema also in the night,
01:27I was going in the night watching movie,
01:29two rupee was paying and watching movie.
01:31In 1950s, that Abdul Rahman Alavi from,
01:34came from Bahrain, he went to Sheikh Rashid,
01:36he said, I want to make cinema,
01:38Sheikh Rashid, cinema in our religious is forbidden.
01:42He said, not for Muslim, we are talking about for,
01:46this one, tourists coming.
01:47He said, oh, tourists coming, go make.
01:49Then I went to Abu Dhabi, I found there is no cinema.
01:51But here only there is cinema.
01:53I tried here, I got it,
01:56there is entertainment here.
01:57I studied this country, there is people,
01:59they want entertainment in the night.
02:01Handy movie was very popular,
02:03English picture was bringing,
02:04but there was nobody coming.
02:06When I started the board, and I make money,
02:09then after that passport,
02:11in essence I go, which was planning to go Australia,
02:13or go to America, or go to Canada.
02:16This was my plan.
02:18I was seeing Sheikh Rashid also coming,
02:20I find out this leader,
02:22it is something unbelievable,
02:25coming and going sometime to this textile shop,
02:30which I was going, talking with them.
02:32He said, come into my shop.
02:33Suddenly coming, he said, can I have one tea there?
02:37Sheikh Rashid coming and saying one tea.
02:39He said, come please, that's it.
02:41He said, asking me how is going things,
02:43and how much bringing, how much making money,
02:45are you happy here?
02:46So these things, automatically I found out,
02:49he's also like me, looking for future of Dubai.
02:53National Cinema in end of 50s and 50s,
02:55the guy from Bahrain came and make it,
02:58and it was in Nasser Esqued side of Jaisalmal.
03:03And it was in traders there,
03:05in the night I was showing movie,
03:07in the morning I was going getting my cash money.
03:09First movie was 1964,
03:11this was the idea was in my mind,
03:14to make it first film,
03:15and 1967 was registered.
03:18Registered, and then 1969 I got Laysan.
03:21Only National Cinema was there,
03:23after that was Al Ain, they make cinema out of city.
03:27Al Ain Cinema used to go from here,
03:30take about three, four movies,
03:32and go to Abu Dhabi,
03:33or via Abu Dhabi go to Al Ain,
03:35a screen stay in my one friend traders,
03:39stay in his home,
03:40and a screen, it was out of city,
03:41Al Ain Cinema opener.
03:43Also demolished.
03:44My experience in the life,
03:46when I was publisher, always viewing,
03:48you know I was, I became very big publisher.
03:51Then when I came here,
03:52started the movie business,
03:53it was continued of that publishing,
03:56the adventure picture.
03:58So that time I was viewing,
04:00the things is good,
04:01because always I was viewing.
04:03For example, the first cinema as you mentioned,
04:06there was National Cinema.
04:08After that automatically I opened cinema
04:09in Ras Al Khaimah also,
04:10Ras Al Khaimah Cinema.
04:12I opened cinema in Ajman,
04:14it was Royal Cinema.
04:15Then after that,
04:17the first air conditioned cinema,
04:19they opened in Dubai,
04:20because opener cinema.
04:22Because we opened Dubai Cinema,
04:24then opened Al Shab Cinema,
04:25and we were running thereafter.
04:27And then the first air conditioned cinema
04:30was by Haroon.
04:32Haroon make air conditioned,
04:33their cinema.
04:34Haroon give it to me,
04:35I was running.
04:36Then after that,
04:38I arranged Al Nasser Cinema,
04:41the first Dolby Studio Cinema in Dubai.
04:44Then open in,
04:46I got this Al Maria Cinema in Abu Dhabi.
04:49Then National Cinema,
04:50I arranged National Cinema,
04:51it was two cinema.
04:52Then after that,
04:53demolished the building,
04:54make it four cinema.
04:55Still I have that four cinema.
04:56The first 12 screen,
04:58I made it in Middle East.
05:00Grand Cinema.
05:01Grand means Gulshan and Ramia,
05:03my partner.
05:04Grand Cinema in Bardo Bay,
05:08Grand Hayat.
05:08Still I want to do it bigger and bigger.
05:11I was planning to put 44 screen,
05:13because when I started in Ibn Battuta,
05:15Ibn Battuta was garden city.
05:17They invite me after Al Gorer,
05:19they invite me in this Nakhil.
05:21Nakhil invite,
05:22they said,
05:23we want to make a cinema there,
05:24in garden, garden city.
05:27Garden city,
05:27after that they changed it to Ibn Battuta.
05:29They asked me,
05:30I am asking how many screen you want to put?
05:33I told him,
05:34how many you think?
05:35He said,
05:36this is 12 to 14.
05:38And asked me,
05:39what is your idea?
05:40I said 21.
05:42Second time ask me,
05:43why 21?
05:44I said,
05:4521 is my lucky,
05:46I know future needed this 21.
05:48Then I started Deira Cinema,
05:50then I came to know Deira Cinema.
05:51In the morning,
05:52I can bring other character,
05:53Dubai coming,
05:54other characters.
05:55There is Malayalam,
05:56Tamil, Telugu,
05:57Canary,
05:59and there is Chinese.
06:00Then I started bringing Malayalam picture,
06:02I changed the poster,
06:03nice poster,
06:04I bring Arabs also do Malayalam picture.
06:06It started that time was Pepsi,
06:08not Cola.
06:09Pepsi was glass,
06:10and sometime the film was,
06:12sometime the film was,
06:14you know,
06:14sometime some scene was not good for them.
06:18They put Pepsi Cola,
06:19put in the screen.
06:22So we try to make it plastic,
06:25after that.
06:26Always I am feeling,
06:27you know,
06:28you know,
06:29still I know nothing,
06:30I did nothing.
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