Ajooba


Ajooba is a 1991 Bollywood fantasy superhero film, produced and directed by Shashi Kapoor and also codirected by the Soviet filmmaker Gennadi Vasilyev. It is a fantasy film loosely based on Arabian mythology such as One Thousand and One Nights. A Russian language dub of the film was released in the Soviet Union as Vozvrashcheniye Bagdadskogo Vora.

The Sultan and his wife Malika Ariadna Shengelaya kick off celebrations throughout the land. The good court magician Ameer Baba Saeed Jaffrey, recently returned from his travels to the land of Hind i.e., India, presents a magic sword to the Sultan. The Sultan thrusts it into a pillar verifying its keenness, and Ameer Baba pronounces that it may be drawn out of the stone again only by a member of the royal family rather like the Excalibur.Soon after, the Sultan privately discusses traitors with Ameer Baba. The Vazir overhears, eventually tricks Ameer Baba, steals his Necklace of Immortality, throws him into the dungeons, attempts to murder the Sultan and his family and takeover the throne. The Sultan escapes with his wife and child. After a pitched battle involving magic carpets and storms and ships, the Sultan is missing, Malika is blinded, and the young Shehzada is washed ashore by a dolphin whom he eventually thinks of as his mother to a blacksmith. This blacksmith adopts the kid, trains him in all the worldly and martial arts, and thus creates Ajooba. In the meantime, the Vazir blames Ameer Baba for the Sultans murder, takes over the throne, and begins ravaging the land, always uttering his slogan Shaitan Zindabaad Long live the Devil. ........

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