Ali Baba (TV series)

[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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

At the same time, Alifi saves Noora Dadi and burns the entrance to Mustafa's world to finish Simsim but fails.

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.

Then they reach the Shangrila in the north of Hindustan to get the Talisman where Ali gets injured while saving Roshni from an arrow.

To save Ali, Roshni pushes him to a magical world and there he is hung upside down and sees his long lost brother, Hatim.

But Simsim escapes and wanted to become the supreme darkness and burns Ibils' body so that he can never return.

Roshni, Marjina, Hatim and Ali respectively goes and finally found the halves of Simsim 's soul.

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.

[10][8] In May 2023, Sumedh Mudgalkar and Srishti Jain entered the show as Hatim and Tahira respectively.

[26][27] 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.

[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] The series was announced by Peninsula Pictures[35] in March 2022 and was confirmed in July 2022 by Sony SAB.

[37] The shooting of the series halted after the lead actress Tunisha Sharma committed suicide on set in Naigaon.

Actor Abhishek Nigam was finalized to replace Sheezan Khan as Ali Baba in a new plot.