[1] For the first time he appeared on the stage, at the insistence of Mohsun Sanani, with a single word "let's go" in the amateur play "Gaveyi-Ahangar".

After this event, he was invited not only to drama performances, but also to operas, operettas and contests as both an artist and a tar player.

In 1917, the "Ittihad" Drama Society was established in Tbilisi, and in the same year Ali Gurbanov was invited to join the troupe.

He worked in this troupe with such actors as Mirzali Abbasov, Mirzakhan Guliyev, Mirseyfaddin Kirmanshahli, Ibrahim Isfahanli.

Ali Gurbanov, who first played the role of Ashug in the film "Haji Gara" in 1928, later he created memorable images by appearing in films "Peasants", "Almaz" (Aftil), "New Horizon", "Sabuhi" (Aghalarov), "Bakhtiar" (Gurban), "To My Native People" (curling master), "The song is created like this" (Blind ashug), "Under the hot sun" (Uncle Ali), "Black Stones" (Master Ramazan), "Stepmother" (shepherd), "The Secret of a Fortress" (Kamran grandfather) and so on.