Agrabah ‘the city of mystery and enchantment’ is, in fact, a fictional city imagined for Disney’s Aladdin film (1992). The creators drew inspiration from the city of Baghdad in Iraq and then gave the city a fictional name. Disney also drew on the Indian city of Agra’s Taj Mahal for the setting of the story’s royal palace. Characters in the Original Aladdin

Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp (1975), Japanese short anime film produced by Toei Animation, featured in the series Classic Tales Retold ( Sekai Meisaku Dōwa Manga Shirīzu). Disney’s spectacular West End musical, ALADDIN, is now touring the UK and Ireland until January 2025. Son of Aladdin is a 2003 Indian 3D-animated fantasy-adventure film by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao, produced by Pentamedia Graphics. It follows the adventures of the son of Aladdin and his fight with an evil sorcerer. They say a picture can say a thousand words – there’s no debate that thousands have been written about the Aladdin Sane album cover and it’s an honour fifty years after its release to be able to share previously unpublished images from the session. I’m privileged to honour two great men and I thank all of those who continue to hold the flame.” Aladdin features as one of five stories in the Hallmark Entertainment TV miniseries Arabian Nights in 2000, featuring Jason Scott Lee as Aladdin and John Leguizamo as both of the genies.Aladdin, a Disney live-action remake of the 1992 animated film, released in 2019. It stars Mena Massoud as the title character, Naomi Scott as Jasmine, Marwan Kenzari as Jafar, and Will Smith as the Genie.

El-Shamy, Hasan (2004). "The Oral Connections of the Arabian Nights". The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-57607-204-2. Allauddinum Albhutha Vilakkum ( Aladdin and the Magic Lamp) is a 1979 Indian adventure fantasy-drama film by I. V. Sasi. It was simultaneously filmed in Malayalam and Tamil with Kamal Haasan in the title role.When the original three-month period is over, Aladdin’s mother reminds the sultan of his promise, and so the sultan allows Aladdin to marry his daughter – but only after he (egged on by his envious minister, the vizier) has been tasked with producing a dowry of forty platters of gold. With the help of the genie, Aladdin manages to produce such a gift, sending his mother to the sultan’s palace with the platters, and the sultan demands to meet the man who will become his son-in-law. The Disney version of Aladdin appears throughout the Disney/ Square Enix crossover series Kingdom Hearts, with Agrabah being a visitable world.

The Japanese manga series Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic is not a direct adaptation, but features Aladdin as the main character of the story and includes many characters from other One Thousand and One Nights stories. An adaptation of this comic to an anime television series was made in October 2012 in which Aladdin is voiced by Kaori Ishihara in Japanese and Erica Mendez in English. Thereafter, too, he can come across as greedy, someone who – thanks to the gift of the magic lamp, which he does little to earn – merely has to summon his loyal servant, the genie, to gain whatever he wishes. In the original story, he shows no interest in the princess’s personality or feelings: whether she wants to marry him or not doesn’t seem to cross his mind, as he has her bridegroom thrown into the damp privy and abducts her to his own home. Beyond Expectations: Integrated Report (PDF). Sega Sammy Holdings. 2017. p.73. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-02-26 . Retrieved 2018-06-19. Aladdin, the 1992 animated feature by Walt Disney Feature Animation (currently the best-known retelling of the story). In this version, several characters are renamed or amalgamated. For instance, the Sorcerer and the Sultan's vizier were combined into one character named Jafar, while the Princess is renamed Jasmine. They have new motivations for their actions. The Genie of the Lamp only grants three wishes and desires freedom from his role. A sentient magic carpet replaces the ring's genie, while Jafar uses a royal magic ring to find Aladdin. The names "Jafar" and "Abu", the Sultan's delight in toys, and their physical appearances are borrowed from the 1940 film The Thief of Bagdad. The setting is moved from China to the fictional Arabian city of Agrabah, and the structure of the plot is simplified.Aladdin appeared in episode 297 of Sesame Street performed by Frank Oz. This version was made from a large lavender live-hand Anything Muppet. A Disney Theatrical Production of Aladdin opened in 2011 in Seattle, in Toronto in 2013, and on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre on March 20, 2014. The story of Sinbad the Sailor was also a late addition to the 1,001 Nights, even though the story had been around – independently – for some time before the eighteenth century.