Alibaba Aur 40 Chor was directed by Latif Faiziyev, Umesh Mehra in the year 1980.
Star Cast:
Movie stars Dharmendra, Hema Malini and Zeenat Aman in lead roles. Other supporting star cast includes Prem Chopra, Sofiko Chiaureli, Madan Puri, Rolan Bykov, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Yelena Sanayeva, Pinchoo Kapoor and Mac Mohan in significant roles.
Movie Review:
Movie "Alibaba Aur 40 Chor" is a mythological story based of ancient fairy tales of Bhagdad.Here Latif and Umesh have tries to bend it in Indian style and give a beautiful message.The movie starts with Ali Baba (Dharmendra) who is a poor fellow lives in a small town of Gulabad with his mother (Sofiko Chiaureli) and elder brother named Qasim who has a small petty shop. His father named Yusuf is a merchant who has gone for the trade to other land when Ali Baba was born. Although he does not remember his father’s face. He runs his family by selling timber which he cuts from the hills. Gulabad is terrorized by a band of forty dacoits who attack any time and cause destruction everywhere. They hide their goods which they get from loots, into a magical cave in the deserted hills. It only opens when the bandit’s leader recites the magical spell it opens and when he says another spell it closes. Later he receives the news that his father has gone missing.Then he goes in search of his father and succeeded in finding him along with Marjeena who is a princess. He rescues her from the guards of the king who murdered her father to become king. Both Marjeena and Ali falls in love with each other. Then they are attacked and his father is killed and Marjeena is abducted. Ali, after burying his father finds that Marjeena is being sold in the slave market. So he takes money from Qasim to get Marjeena and takes her home. Qasim evicts Ali Baba from their family home as a result of recovering his money. Here Khazi announces a reward for the capture of notorious bandit Abu Hassan. A young lady named Fatima (Zeenat Aman) her support to Ali Baba in killing Abu Hassan. Shortly Ali comes to know the secret hideout and its magic spells to open it.And thus story goes on.Movie is nice and enjoyable.It was good at Box Office and presented something new in its time.
Music And Singers:
Music of the movie is given by Rahul Dev Burman. And songs are sung in beautiful voices of Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar.
Here are the mp3 songs of the movie:
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