The film documents the heartbreaks and disillusionments in the life of gifted courtesan Umrao Jaan (Aishwarya Rai ). Instead it alternates between a hollow, glossy romance and an outrageous period drama. To be fair, even if you steer clear of comparisons, the new Umrao Jaan barely demonstrates the soul or fabric of a classic. His interpretation of Mirza Mohammed Hadi Ruswa's Urdu novel never achieves the creative brilliance and emotional poignancy of Muzzafar Ali's benchmark 1981 adaptation. The same is true of director J P Dutta's efforts, which are not nearly enough. Recreating the past is hard, and filmmakers seldom succeed in replacing the memory of the past vision with their own.
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