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| Rekha | ... |
Amiran
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| Farooq Shaikh | ... |
Nawab Sultan
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| Naseeruddin Shah | ... |
Gohar Mirza
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| Raj Babbar | ... |
Faiz Ali
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| Shaukat Azmi | ... |
Khanum Jaan
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Ishtiaque Khan Ghilzai | ... |
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| Prema Narayan | ... |
Bismillah
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Akbar Rashid |
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| Gajanan Jagirdar | ... |
Maulvi
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| Dina Pathak | ... |
Husseini
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| Rita Rani Kaul | ... |
Ramdei
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Shaheen Sultan |
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Umme Farwa | ... |
Young Amiran
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Seema Sathyu |
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| Farrukh Jaffar | ... |
Played Umrao Jaan's biological mother
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| Bharat Bhushan | ... |
Khan Saheb (uncredited)
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| Leela Mishra | ... |
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| Mukri | ... |
Parnan Aziz (uncredited)
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| Yunus Parvez | ... |
Khan (uncredited)
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| Satish Shah | ... |
Daroga Dilawar (uncredited)
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Directed by
| Muzaffar Ali | ||
Written by
| Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa | ... | (novel) (as Mirza Hadi Ruswa) |
| Shama Zaidi | ... | (screenplay and dialogue) and |
| Javed Siddiqui | ... | (screenplay and dialogue) and |
| Muzaffar Ali | ... | (screenplay and dialogue) |
Produced by
| Muzaffar Ali | ... | producer |
Music by
| Khayyam | ||
Cinematography by
| Pravin Bhatt | ||
Editing by
| B. Prasad | ||
Art Direction by
| Muzaffar Ali | ||
| Bansi Chandragupta | ... | (as Bansi Chandra Gupta) |
| Manzoor | ||
Costume Design by
| Subhashini Ali | ||
Makeup Department
| S. Musarrat | ... | makeup artist (uncredited) |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Athar Nawaaz | ... | Chief Assistant Director |
Sound Department
| B.K. Chaturvedi | ... | audiographer |
Music Department
| Talat Aziz | ... | playback singer |
| Asha Bhosle | ... | playback singer (as Asha Bhonsale) |
| Jagjit Kaur | ... | playback singer |
| Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan | ... | playback singer |
| Shahryar | ... | lyricist |
Additional Crew
| S.K. Jain | ... | world right controller |
| Gopi Krishna | ... | choreographer |
| Kumudini Lakhia | ... | choreographer |
| Mohamed Shafi | ... | production controller (as Mohd. Shafi) |
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Storyline
| Plot Summary |
In Faizabad, British India, Dilawar is sentenced to several years in prison after Amiran's Daroga dad testifies against him. After his discharge around 1840, he extracts his vengeance by abducting Amiran and selling to a brothel madam. It is here Amiran will be re-named Umrao Jaan. Years later, Umrao has grown up and is an accomplished poetess as well as dancer extraordinary. She has many patrons, chief amongst them are Nawab Sultan and his father. The young Nawab is smitten by Umrao's beauty and her poems, but is finally forced to marry a girl of his mother's choice, leaving behind a heart-broken and devastated Umrao, who seeks solace in the arms of Faiz Ali and finally elopes with him, only to find out that he is a wanted bandit, and is shot down and killed by guards. Umrao re-locates to Kanpur where she establishes herself as a Poet and dancer, but is hunted down by brothel-keepers, Gohar Mirza and Husseini and brought back, where she is told that she must marry Gohar. Watch what Umrao does to escape from being married against her will, and her attempts to try and find her way back to her parents. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | Rekha wore her own costumes and jewelry for the movie due to budget constraints. The success of Khubsoorat and Umrao Jaan established Rekha, with whom Amitabh had stopped signing movies, as the top heroine of the first half of 1980s. The mantle would be later taken over by Sridevi, in 1983. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Featured in Congregation (1986). See more » |
| Soundtracks | Dil cheez kya hai aap meri jaan leejiye See more » |