Underplayed Gems

Alibaba Aur 40 Chor (1980)

Alibaba Aur 40 Chor poster
Original title
अलीबाबा और चालीस चोर
Directed by
Latif Fayziyev, Umesh Mehra
Genre
fantasy film, action film, adventure film, family film, romance film
Country
Soviet Union, India
Runtime
2h 33m
Rated
U
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young man named Ali Baba discovers a secret cave filled with treasures belonging to a band of forty thieves. He must outsmart the thieves when they try to take revenge on him and his family.

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What happens

Adventures of Ali-Baba and the Forty Thieves (Hindi: Alibaba aur 40 Chor; Russian: Приключения Али-Бабы и сорока разбойников, romanized: Priklucheniya Ali-Baby i soroka razboynikov) is a 1980 Indo-Soviet fantasy film based on the Arabian Nights story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The film is a joint directorial effort between India's Umesh Mehra and the Soviet Union's Latif Faiziev. The film stars Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Zeenat Aman, Yoqub Ahmedov, Rolan Bykov, Sofiko Chiaureli, Elena Sanayeva, and Zakir Mukhamedzhanov. The storyline is slightly altered to extend as a long movie. The writers are Shanti Prakash Bakshi and Boris Saakov. The background score of the film is composed by Vladimir Milov and the music for the songs is composed by R.D. Burman. The choreographers of the film are Leonid Travitsky and Peter Pereira. It was the most successful Indian-Soviet co-production, becoming a success in both India and the Soviet Union. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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