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Aladin Ka Beta (1955)

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  • Release Date1955
  • GenreAction
  • FormatB-W
  • LanguageHindi
  • Run Time138 mins
  • Length3798.11 meters
  • Number of Reels13 reels
  • Gauge35 mm
  • Censor RatingU
  • Censor Certificate NumberU-14677-MUM
  • Certificate Date22/11/1955
  • Shooting LocationJyoti Studio
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The fabulous legend about Alladin and his wonderful lamp is known to everybody. This story depicts the last stage of Alladin's life, when he was preparing for his last journey to God's Country. Due to the magical effect of the Miraculous Lamp, all his family members were living with great pomp and luxuriously, doing nothing and sitting right on the heap of Gold. His only son Nuruddin had nothing to be desired and used to spend lavishly to fulfill all his fantastic desires. He was quite a stranger, so far the poverty and miseries of life was concerned but something else too was written in his luck.

On the other hand the Magician, though lost the Lamp to Alladin, but did not lose the hope, nor slacketed his efforts to regain it, and he was ever anxious for it. When all his magical attempts failed to secure to lamp, his beautiful and most attractive daughter Zeenat prepared to help her father and set out for Bagdad in disguise of an alluring dancer, so that, she after seducing Nuruddin in the trap of her beauty could avail the magic lamp. While Nuruddin was completely under the hypnotic spell of the most seductive and captivating cabaret dancer Rukhsana. But Rukhsana's seductive charm could not compete the devine and sublime beauty of Zeenat, the magician's daughter and thus Zeenat completely fascinated Nuruddin. The magician too became the domestic servant in the house of Alladin, by changing his countenance, through magic. Zeenat once, cunningly demanded the Lamp from Nuruddin as a token of his Love. At the insistence of his son Nuruddin, Alladin told the secret of the whereabouts of the lamp.

What happened after that? Did Zeenat succeed to get the lamp?

What happened to the Magician? Did the love of Nuruddin and Zeenat succeed?

All these and thousand fantasies, breath-taking magical actions, bewitching dances, soul-steering songs and pulsating romances, see on the screen to get the Life time entertainment.

(From the official press booklet)
        

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