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Sindbad
Alibaba and Aladdin
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Scheda:
Nazione: India -
Produzione:
Tsuburaya Productions
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Musiche: Ravi Shankar Sharma (Ravi) -
Effetti speciali: Seishirô Ishii, Keiji Kawakami - Formato: Color, linguaggio Hindi. Cast:
Agha, Master Bhagwan, Helen, Sayeeda Khan, Pradeep Kumar, Minoo Mumtaz.
Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb
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en.wikipedia.org -
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scifilm.org:
«Sindbad, Alibaba and
Aladin join forces to do battle with an evil ruler. This marks my first review
of a full-fledged Bollywood movie, though I've seen a couple prior to this.
Please take the above plot description with a grain of salt; my copy is in
unsubtitled Hindi, and I found the actual plot line rather difficult to follow.
Basically, it seems our three heroes go on adventures to get magical items to
help them defeat the evil ruler; a magic sword, lamp and carpet are all used.
Based on the general tone of the movie, I'm guessing it's a comedy; in fact, I
found it frantic and shrill on quite a number of occasions. Of course, it's also
a musical, and from the few movies I've seen, I've come to the conclusion that
it's the musical numbers that add the real flavor to the Bollywood
movie-watching experience; they seem both familiar and alien, with dance moves
that seem to be unique to the culture. There's a lot of talk, an underwater
sequence (including giant squids and clams), a reenactment of Aladin's discovery
of the lamp, and a battle with a dragon that looks like an extremely cheap
version of Godzilla; in fact, if my eyes aren't deceiving me, I'm pretty sure I
saw Toho special effects wizard Eija Tsuburaya listed in the credits. I don't
know when I'll be venturing into this territory of filmdom again, but I hope to
eventually have more of a feel for Bollywood movies».
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