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MOVIE-FANS are flocking to Bahrain cinemas to watch the latest Pirates of the Carribean blockbuster … but the kingdom boasts its own swashbuckling Disney star who was once as popular on the island as today’s Hollywood heart-throb Johnny Depp.
Khalifa Shaheen played the role of a captain in Hamad and the Pirates which was screened worldwide back in the 1970s and helped put Bahrain on the map.
In a fascinating insight into the making of the classic hit he tells GulfWeekly’s Asma Salman exclusively how difficult it was to film the adventure without the computer technology available to movie-makers today and reveals that he still holds the script for the screenplay of the sequel that was planned but never made.
