Alibaba Aur Chaalis Chor (Dharminder) DEI DVD was reviewed in the early days of Zulm.net by Saharan Sunny Audit. Excellent Excellent DVD. (Could not find that thread today).
(Ragz posted this link, which has roughly the same content as was in Saharan Sunny's zulm posting.
https://www.dvdreviewer.co.uk/DVD/26141 ... hran-Audit)
Homi Wadia too had made this title (similar titles) twice (1954 B/W, 1966 Color). Homi Wadia title was Alibaba And Forty Thieves and starred Mahipal in the 1954 version and remade it in color in 1966 starring Sanjeev Kumar & L.Vijyalashmi (south actress). I never saw the B/W version but the 1966 version was my fav of those days. And, then in the 1980s, came the Dharminder, Hema, Zeenat high budget version.
Noticed the 1966 version on youtube and was pleasantly surprised with the print. It's direct film to 25 fps transfer and hence default progressive. I did not expect a good print for a film that most have forgotten. Anyway, it was a charm to see that film again and in a good print. It has some good songs. Specially, the 'Banaaye Jaa Bigaade Jaa' song & 'AA Jaa Baahon Mein Alla Alla -- Mukesh duet'. And of course many more nice song-dance combos (Music Usha Khanna), normal for the fantasy films. Worth a watch.
Another remarkable thing of this youtube posting:
Film CC shows 4175 meters = 152 min. (Film CC says 'Partly In Color' but I remember, all of it was in color when released)
But, the youtube version is 154 min @ 4% speed up (160 min film time -- Full 8 min extra
)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn4Ea4JAjO0
