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Aishwarya
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Divya Dutta, Himani Shivpuri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda |
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J.P.
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In
the early days of the British rule of India, a
young girl is taken away from her family, and sold
into prostitution.
The
Madam of the brothel (Shabana Azmi) in which the
young girl now resides, sees the exquisite beauty
in her and begins training her in the art of a
high class courtesan. Hoping that one-day she will
entertain the rich and famous of India. The young
girl learns to read, write, dance, and sing. |
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The
girl grows up to become Umrao Jaan (Aishwarya Rai),
a cultured woman who is aptly trained in
captivating the hearts of wealthy men and this is
exactly what she does, to a rich Nawab (Abhishek
Bachchan), who is mesmerised by her inner and
outer beauty. The two fall in love, but heartache
beckons for Umrao Jaan, as the Nawab gets married
to someone else.
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the rebound of rejection, Umrao Jaan meets a
dashing bandit, who wins her heart. He takes her
away from the brothel in the hope of marrying her,
but tragedy strikes, and the police kills the
bandit. Umrao Jaan is now alone and has no choice
but to return to the brothel and back to her old
job.
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By
now the British invasion of India is in full flow and an
attack on Lucknow takes place. Umrao Jaan is forced to
flee and ends up in a small village that she recalls as
her childhood home. The residents of the village ask
Umrao Jaan to sing and dance, she duly obliges. She
meets her mother and her younger brother, both of whom
thought she had died. Umrao’s mother is delighted to
have her daughter return home, but her brother forbids
it, as her vocation is an embarrassment to their family
name.
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While
we keep thinking about how 'this' Umrao Jaan will be
different from the one that was made by Muzaffar Ali two
and a half decades ago, for director J P Dutta this is
more than just a remake. Dutta's father OP Dutta wrote
his version of Umrao Jaan in the year 1952 and so this
film has more reasons to be made than the fact that it
is a classic. When JP Dutta saw Muzaffar Ali's Umrao
Jaan, he came home and told his dad. His father told him
that he had once started the film with Nimmi but he
didn't complete it. That's when he started narrating the
film to JP who promised to remake the film. JP waited
for a generation change to make this film.
For Shabana Azmi its new challenge
altogether she is playing the role of Khanum Jaan that
was played by her mother Shaukat in Ali's Umrao Jaan.
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A
lot is expected from the music of this Umrao Jaan, many
expecting it live up to the original score. The original
soundtrack released in 1981 was a blend of
soul-searching poetry and lilting music by the legendary
Khayyam.
Twenty-five
years on, veteran filmmaker Dutta, who has shifted his
focus from war films to historical dramas, has teamed up
with Javed Akhtar and Anu Malik to make it a musical
bonanza. All
the songs are Urdu ghazals (soulful songs).
Dutta has attempted to keep the ambience authentic. He
transported the musicians to Jaipur and shot the 'mujraa'
(dance) scenes in their presence.
The film is expected for release in early November.
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