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A young courtesan kidnapped from her home and sold into slavery ultimately transcends her grim fate in director J.P. Dutta's adaptation of author Mirza Haadi Ruswa's classic 1905 novel. Previously adapted for the screen to great acclaim in 1981, Ruswa's novel tells the story of a middle class girl kidnapped by a habitual offender who had been imprisoned for ten years as a result of her father's damning testimony. Determined to curse his accuser with a fate worse than death, the vengeful
Unrated, 3 hr. 8 min.
Nov 3, 2006 Limited
Jan 23, 2007
Adlabs Films
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Demands more patience than usual mainstream Hindi fare but rewards the viewer with fine perfs and a story that engages emotionally over the three-hour span.
This story has all the hallmarks of a grand tragedy, but under J.P. Dutta's leaden direction, Umrao Jaan never registers a pulse.
At three and a half hours, J.P. Dutta's lugubrious period melodrama Umrao Jaan defeated me. It feels endless.
With sincere apologies to all my flixster friends who are huge Bollywood fans . . . Walter, I say, with great guilt, that I could not bear another syllable of this one. Not another frame, not another cut, not another jot, not another iota. In fairness to me, I have been on an all-Bollywood, all-the-time crusade
March 29, 2008Super Reviewer
An amazing movie! Loved it! Brought tears to my eyes.
December 16, 2007Super Reviewer
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