Rekha's umrao jaan is a classic, the music was amazing. It is an art film, so slow, sad if one is not use to that genre but authentic as it is directed by Muzaffar ali who hails from Lucknow and recreated that era poetically.
Fun fact it won national awards for Rekha and Asha Bhonsle but Rekha's award was controversial as Jennifer kendall Kapoor , Shashi kapoor's wife was widely expected to win for 36 Chowringhee lane, This is a beautiful, touching movie about an Anglo Indian spinster in the days when British had left and the few anglo indians were left neither here nor there , directed by Aparna Sen (konkona's mom).
The new version is very badly made and aishwarya's performance is not a patch on Rekha's.
and both abhisheka and sunil shetty were miscast, who casts Sunil in a Lucknowi nawab role 😃
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