Ali Baba (TV series)

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Ali Baba
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Also known asAli Baba: Dastaan-E-Kabul Chapter 1
Ali Baba: Ek Andaaz Andekha Chapter 2
Genre Fantasy
Created by
  • Alind Srivastava
  • Nisser Parvej
Directed by
  • Maan Singh Manku
  • Ravi Bhushan
Starring
Theme music composerSouvyk Chakraborty
Opening theme"Ali Baba"
Country of originIndia
Original languagesHindi
Urdu
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes239 (list of episodes)
Production
Producers
  • Nissar Parvez
  • Alind Srivastava
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time19-25 minutes
Production company Peninsula Pictures
Original release
Network Sony SAB
Sony LIV
Release22 August 2022 (2022-08-22) 
9 June 2023 (2023-06-09)

Ali Baba is an Indian fantasy television series based on the Arabian Nights character Ali Baba. Produced by Alind Srivastava and Nissar Parvez under Peninsula Pictures. The series follows the life of an orphan Alibaba, from the Mamuli Gali of Kabul, and the challenges he faces while he tries to protect and take care of five other orphan children.

Contents

It starred Sheezan Khan, [1] Tunisha Sharma, [2] Karthik Jayaram [3] and Sayantani Ghosh in the first season titled Ali Baba: Dastaan-e-Kabul: Chapter 1 (Translation - Ali Baba: Legend of Kabul: Chapter 1). [4] It aired from 22 August 2022 to 14 January 2023 on Sony SAB [5] and digitally streams on SonyLIV. [6]

It starred Abhishek Nigam replacing Khan and Manul Chudasama replacing Tunisha as the leads in the new season titled Ali Baba: Ek Andaaz Andekha : Chapter 2 (Translation: Ali Baba: A Style Unseen : Chapter 2). [7] [8] It aired from 16 January 2023 to 9 June 2023.

Series overview

No. of seasonNo of episodesOriginally broadcast (India)
First airedLast aired
112622 August 202214 January 2023
211316 January 20239 June 2023

Plot

Chapter 1: Dastaan-E-Kabul

Ali Baba is a poor, yet a very good person living with 5 adorable orphan children viz Gulrez, Poya, Imaad, Nafi and Alifi. He always gets flashbacks of when his father, the great magician Mustafa gets killed while destroying the Forty Thieves and their Leader, Iblis. However, he makes a prophecy that Ali will write and complete 'Legend of Kabul'. Simsim who loves and respects Iblis, decides to crack the moon to break the curse to get the Forty Thieves back and succeeds in it. Princess Mariam loses her father due to a fight between her father and her wicked uncle, Saddam; a cunning person who helps Simsim but wants to sit on the Throne. Later, Mariam escapes and after a lot of turns meets Ali.

They slowly develop feelings for each other and Ali, Mariam and the children reach Ali's home. Ali and Simsim come face to face but Ali wins the Talisman and becomes the Saviour of Parvaz. After a series of events, Ali Baba finally takes the treasure but Qasim had watched him. Then Qasim gets brutally killed by the Forty Thieves and Simsim and they hung him in the centre of Parvaz to give warning to the people. They also gave the note that if anyone gets him down then his whole family will die. So, for the sake of his family, Ali Baba can't gets Qasim down. But later Ali, in the form of Rakhwala, with the help of the Talisman provides proper burial to Qasim. Then, Ali Baba promises to finish Simsim and the Forty Thieves.

Ali Baba now tries to find a way to kill the Forty Thieves and Simsim once and for all. Then by solving clues of his father, Ali reaches his father's magical world and after a lot of turns meets his father who gives him the 'Noor' but warns him that the Noor works only with the Talisman. After returning, he discovers that Nazia has sold the Talisman. Ali goes to find the Talisman but gets to know from Nafi that Marjina has been captured. Then he decides to save Marjina's life first. On the quest to save Marjina, Ali fails and burns his face by the Forty Thieves and was left to die.

Simsim gets out of the cave by breaking the curse from sacrificing Marjina and enters Parvaz as Simijaan to catch the Rakhwala. She also captures Ali's grandmother. Very soon, she enters Mustafa's magical world to find her answers and again comes face to face with Mustafa.

Chapter 2: Ek Andaaz Andekha

Simsim asks Mustafa who the Rakhwala is and he answers that his son, Ali is. At the same time, Alifi saves Noora Dadi and burns the entrance to Mustafa's world to finish Simsim but fails. Ali gets the cure. He then returns to Parvaz to find Simsim. Very soon, Ali imprisons Simsim and gets to know the real place of Marjina. Then he finds Marjina but is shocked to see that Marjina has lost her memory. Ali gets to know that the Prince of Ras Al Khaimah is responsible for Marjina losing her memory and after a lot of turns, Ali defeated the Prince and takes Marjina back to Parvaz. The children also fall in danger but ultimately succeeds and returns to Parwaaz.

On the way, Ali and Marjina unknowingly disturb a marriage as a headless woman comes and takes the groom. To help the people and to free the groom, Ali makes a plan to catch the headless woman. On the other hand, the children goes to find the Talisman and ends up in the Snake World. On the other hand, Ali promises to find the head of the headless woman and succeeds. Simsim is freed by the Forty Thieves. Simsim then seeks to take revenge on Ali. Ali goes in search of Marjina's memories. Ali then gives the memory of Marjina to her and she recalls everything but questions about Ali's face but Ali explains her how his face changed. The children also escaped from the Snake World but Saddam brings the news to Simsim about the Talisman and tortures the children.

On returning home happily, Ali and Marjina gets to know from Hasan, (who was stabbed by Simsim and left alive to give the information to Ali), that the children are kidnapped by Simsim in the palace of Kabul Shahi. Ali and Marjina rush to Kabul Shahi to save the children and where Ali realises that Marjina is actually Princess Mariam. Then they successfully saved the children and Mariam finally kills Saddam. Simsim goes to find the Talisman but fails and gets to know that she needs Ali's helps to get the Talisman as she saw the Noor of Shangrila on Ali 's back when she was fighting against him. She asks for Ali's help but he refuses. Then she kills Noora Dadi and threatens Ali that she will kill every one Ali has loved and will destroy the entire Parvaz. So, for the sake of everyone's life, Ali Baba promises to get the Talisman for her.

Then they reach the Shangrila in the north of Hindustan to get the Talisman where Ali gets injured while saving Roshni from an arrow. Then Roshni takes them inside the Shangrila. There, Ali Baba takes the Talisman and Roshni is apparently killed by Simsim, but Ali blames himself for her death. On returning to Parvaz, Ali seemingly gives the Talisman to SImsim. Mariam reveals to Ali that Roshni is his mother. Ali is mortified and swears revenge, revealing he has the real Talisman. Then Ali goes to the cave of Simsim and when he was about to open the door of Simsim's Cave, he was confronted by the guru of Shangrila Tribe and he says that Roshni has not been killed but vanished and kidnapped by Simsim. He then finds the prison which had Roshni and Ali frees her and they both go to Parvaaz. They then were having a feast on the birthday of Ali's father Mustafa. On the same day Simsim and the Forty Thieves comes to Parvaaz to recover the Talisman from Ali.

Mariam sets fire to the boxes that held captive the Forty Thieves. Simsim pretends to have burned as well. Using this trick, she steals the Talisman from Ali and starts the ceremony to awaken Iblis. Ali stops her, and burns Iblis's body to ashes. Simsim swears revenge and decides to use the Talisman for her vengeance.

However, she finds a suitable body and Iblis returns to life. Simsim and Iblis goes to Parvaz. To save Ali, Roshni pushes him to a magical world and there he is hung upside down and sees his long lost brother, Hatim.

Hatim and Ali Baba initially gets into rivalry but still they have to fight together as Iblis has been reborn and is destroying the world to find Ali as he has the "Roshan Dil" and it is in destiny of Ali Baba to kill Iblis and finish the darkness but Ali can't defeat Iblis because he is too weak against Iblis. On Behrouz Baba's insist, Tahira convinces Hatim to train Ali because Hatim has experience and Ali has power. Iblis finds Ali and kills Behrouz Baba but Ali Baba, Tahira and Hatim escaped to find the seven most difficult questions of the universe to train Ali and to get the magical stone to defeat Iblis.

However, one of the fourteen devils tries to capture Ali, but fails the first time and Ali, Hatim and Tahira found the first question's answer but the devil succeeds in capturing Ali the second time and he takes Ali to Kabul. On reaching, Ali captured the devil by using Hatim's inventory pocket. Now, Ali and Hatim have divided their works as Hatim would find the answers of the questions and Ali will capture all the other devils of Iblis. The Black Genie wants to marry Simsim and Iblis agrees. Iblis tells Mariam that Ali is dead and that she will be his wife. Mariam refuses. Simsim gets extremely happy thinking that she is going to marry Iblis.

On the wedding day, Ali and Marjina meets. Simsim gets to know about Iblis' real intention and Simsim protests against him and Iblis takes her power and abandoned her. Now, Ali Baba and Simsim unites together to kill Iblis. Simsim and Ali enters Iblis' palace and they convinced him to trust them.

Ali captured all the fourteen devils of Iblis' with the help of Simsim, by which Iblis gets weaker than before. On the other hand, Iblis gets the magical stone after capturing Hatim in the world of most difficult questions and after his return, Iblis captures Ali and his team and he reveals his real plans to Simsim. Simsim got to know that Iblis has to sacrifice his wife and all of his devils so he had to marry princess Mariam and to capture all his devils. Iblis gives Simsim her powers back. Simsim takes Roshni's powers and disguises herself as Roshni and tries to send Ali to Iblis so that Iblis can use the Roshan Dil but Ali recognised her. Ali helps Hatim to release himself while Hatim gives an idea to Ali to defeat Iblis. Ali goes after Iblis with a plan. Hatim goes to find the Talisman. Ali with the help of Hatim defeated Iblis by the use of Talisman. But Simsim escapes and wanted to become the supreme darkness and burns Ibils' body so that he can never return. Simsim divides her soul into four halves in air, water, land and lava. Roshni, Marjina, Hatim and Ali respectively goes and finally found the halves of Simsim 's soul. After uniting the soul, Ali Baba finally defeated Simsim as well. The series ends with Ali Baba, Marjina and his family living happily ever after.

Cast

Main

Recurring

Production

Casting

Sheezan Khan [20] was cast in the titular role, [21] and was joined by Tunisha Sharma, [22] Karthik Jayaram [23] and Sayantani Ghosh [24] as leads.

Navina Bole was cast to portray Fatima's mother in October 2022. [25]

Abhishek Nigam replaced Sheezan Khan in Season 2 in January 2023 post Sharma's demise while Manul Chudasama replaced Tunisha as Mariam in the following month. [10] [8] In May 2023, Sumedh Mudgalkar and Srishti Jain entered the show as Hatim and Tahira respectively. [26] [27]

Controversy

On 24 December 2022, actress Tunisha Sharma playing the lead role of Shehzaadi Mariam, committed suicide by hanging herself in the green room of co-star Sheezan Khan on set. [28] [29] She was taken to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead on arrival. [30]

Hours after her death her co-actor, rumored boyfriend and the lead Sheezan Khan was booked in the case of abetment for suicide by her mother. [31] [32]

On 4 January 2023, Federation of Western India Cine Employees, president BN Tiwari demanded strict action against the makers for negligence. [33] [34]

Development

The series was announced by Peninsula Pictures [35] in March 2022 and was confirmed in July 2022 by Sony SAB. [36] The shooting of the series began in June 2022 in Ladakh, India. [37]

Filming

The shooting of the series halted after the lead actress Tunisha Sharma committed suicide on set in Naigaon. [38] [39] [40] [41] The show had an episode bank of one week. [42] [43]

The cast resumed the shooting of the series on 4 January 2023, on Renu Studio in Naigaon. Actor Abhishek Nigam was finalized to replace Sheezan Khan as Ali Baba in a new plot. [44] [45]

Soundtrack

Ali Baba
Soundtrack album by
Souvyk Chakraborty
Released2022
Genre Romance
Soundtrack
Length3:14
Language Hindi
Label SonyLIV
Producer Nissar Parvez
Alind Srivastava

Ali Baba soundtrack is composed by Souvyk Chakraborty. [46] The first song "Rehnuma" is the theme song of Ali and Mariam.

Tracklisting
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Rehnuma" (Duet) 2:00
2."Uran Chu" (Male)Aabhik Ghosh1:14
Total length:3:14

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