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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.
Dressed in flowing robes and a colourful turban, chiselled features combined with dark rugged looks, Khalifa Shaheen looks very much the part of a scheming Pirate Captain in Walt Disney’s featurette, Hamad and the Pirates.
● Disney spent $250,000 (BD94,258) to make Hamad and the Pirates.
The Jolly Roger is the name given to any of the various flags flown to identify the vessel as a pirate ship.
If ever there were a critic-proof movie, this is surely it. Its predecessor was the highest-earning release of last year, and it left everything to be settled in this final instalment.
