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But the box office returns were just average. Rekha was praised for her acting, and she was awarded the National Award for her portrayal of the central character.

Choreography: Gopi Krishna for the song " Dil Cheez Kya Hai ", Kumudini Lakhia Īccording to author Anitaa Padhye's Ten Classics (English), Umrao Jaan was released theatrically on 2 January 1981.

Art Direction: Muzaffar Ali, Bansi Chandragupta, Manzoor.

Seema Sathyu and Umme Farwa as young Amiran.

She returns to Lucknow to find the brothel looted and deserted. Her mother is happy to welcome Umrao back, but her brother forbids it and orders Umrao to never return. The residents fail to recognize her, however, and ask her to dance for their pleasure.Īfterwards, she reunites with her family, who believed her to be dead. Umrao's party of refugees stops in a small village, which Umrao recognizes as Faizabad. Sometime later, British soldiers attack Lucknow and the residents are forced to flee. She elopes with him, but is forced to return to Lucknow after Ali is killed by local police. Umrao then becomes infatuated with bandit chieftain Faiz Ali, who woos and wins her heart.

Umrao catches the eye of Nawab Sultan and the two fall in love, but the relationship comes to an end when Nawab reveals he must marry in order to please his family. Renamed Umrao Jaan, Amiran turns into a cultured woman trained to captivate men of wealth and taste. In the year 1840, a girl named Amiran is kidnapped from her family in Faizabad and sold to Khanum Jaan, the madam of a brothel in Lucknow who teaches young courtesans. Based on the 1905 Urdu novel Umrao Jaan Ada, the film tells the story of a Lucknow courtesan and her rise to fame. With no other options in sight, Nawab is forced to move into a state of exile in the country meanwhile, as Umrao's heart breaks from the separation, she is greeted by the most unwelcome favors of a local bandit, Faiz Ali (Suneil Shetty), who secretly vows to do everything in his power to win Umrao over and undo the strands of Nawab's devotion to her.Umrao Jaan is a 1981 Indian musical film directed by Muzaffar Ali and starring Rekha as the eponymous character. Yet all does not go according to plan: disgusted with his son's choice of partner, Nawab's father disowns him, and Khanum, the matriarch of the brothel, quickly refuses to take in an non-paying boarder. Her superiors teach her music, poetry and dance as part of her courtesan training when her "debut" finally arrives as a courtesan, the gods are with her, for a young aristocrat, Nawab Sultan (Abhishek Bachchan) falls instantly for her, and she for him, and moves into the kotha to consummate their love and begin a life together. Ameeran's path collides with destiny when she is kidnapped at a tender age by her father's enemies, promptly sold into a kotha (or brothel) in the city of Lucknow, and renamed Umrao Jaan. As Umrao narrates, the film then flashes back to well over a half-century earlier, when she - originally a young girl, named Ameeran - is born comfortably into an affluent upper middle-class family in the city of Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh.

Aishwarya Rai stars as the title character as the film opens, she is an elderly courtesan detailing her life for the benefit of the belletrist Mirza Mohammed Hada Ruswa who plans to document the woman's story for successive generations. Dutta authored the Indian period drama Umrao Jaan - the epic, three-hour story of a prostitute's travails in 19th century India.