THE transportation, mutation and convolution of the Alibaba fable in Indian cinema is noteworthy. It testifies to an extraordinary transcultural collaboration — the DNA of the story, Indianised by the pioneer Parsi theatre owners, film producers and financers, has traces of various nations and continents, much like the DNA of the people of South Asia.
Source: ‘Bombay Cinema’s Islamicate Histories’: Our transcultural cinema : The Tribune India