 Big budget musical narrating a legend from the Shanama. The Persian sculptor Farhad falls in love with Queen Shirin. The shah khusro, who had promised Farhad a reward for having built a canal, agrees to let him marry Shirin provided he first single-handedly demolishes the Besutun mountain. Shirin and Farhad are finally united in death as Farhad s tomb miraculously opens to accept Shirin.