A connoisseur's item that deserves fest play beyond the usual Bollywood circuit, 19th-century courtesan drama "Umrao Jaan" marks a major bounceback by writer-director J.P. Dutta after his over-long ...
Inn aankhon ki masti ke mastaane hazaaron hain, sang Rekha as Umrao Jaan Ada, the courtesan and poet, 44 years ago wearing a white and gold anarkali in Muzaffar Ali's 1981 classic movie Umrao Jaan. At ...
In films on courtesans, the first things you see are big bosoms and money. In Muzzaffar Ali’s film Umrao Jaan (1981), based on Mirza Hadi Ruswa’s 1899 novel Umrao Jaan Adaa on a 19th century tawaif ...