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- Loan Terms:
- Circulating
- Status:
- IN
- DVD007250
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Umrao Jaan
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Dutta, J. P.
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Eros International Media, 2010
- Title:
- Umrao Jaan
- Director:
- Dutta, J. P.
- Production Co:
- Reliance Entertainment; J. P. Films
- Description:
- DVD - Region free. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
189 minutes.
- Country:
- India
- Year:
- 2006
- Publisher:
- Eros International Media, 2010
- Language:
- Hindi language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Romance, With Songs, Film Adaptation
- Notes:
- A period musical drama film starring Rekha as the eponymous character. Based on the 1905 Urdu novel Umrao Jaan Ada, the film tells the story of a Lucknow courtesan and her rise to fame. 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. Renamed Umrao Jaan, Amiran turns into a cultured woman trained to captivate men of wealth and taste.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog