Umrao Jaan: how gorgeous can you get?
Umrao Jaan, a Bollywood movie with Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachcan, is probably my most anticipated of the year. It just looks so bloody gorgeous. Aishwarya has seldom looked more beautiful and Abhishek? There is a reason he and Saif are always in the running for my second fave Bolly actor (SRK is first).
UJ is a period piece with the following plot: in the year 1840, a young girl named Ameeran is kidnapped from her family by their neighbour and sold to Madam Khanum Jaan who owns a brothel where she trains courtesans. Ameeran, renamed Umrao Jaan, learns to read, write, dance, sing, and charm wealthy men. She is no common prostitute, but a cultured woman trained to captivate men of wealth and taste.
A grown-up Umrao Jaan catches the eye of Nawab Sultan and to say more would really be to spoil it all...
I bring you some pics:
Umrao Jaan and Nawab Sultan:
UJ is a period piece with the following plot: in the year 1840, a young girl named Ameeran is kidnapped from her family by their neighbour and sold to Madam Khanum Jaan who owns a brothel where she trains courtesans. Ameeran, renamed Umrao Jaan, learns to read, write, dance, sing, and charm wealthy men. She is no common prostitute, but a cultured woman trained to captivate men of wealth and taste.
A grown-up Umrao Jaan catches the eye of Nawab Sultan and to say more would really be to spoil it all...
I bring you some pics:
Umrao Jaan and Nawab Sultan: