Ameeran ends up in a brothel run by Lucknow's Madame Khanum Jaan, where she is taught dance and poetry, and is subsequently re-named Umrao Jaan. Years later, Umrao has matured, is a well-known ...

Regarded as the Mother India of Rekha’s career, the character of the Lucknowi courtesan whose adventurous life is defined and ...

In aankhon ki masti ke mastane hazaron hain. Welcome to the Lucknow of the 1890s into the court of the beautiful tawaif Umrao Jaan Adaa who lived her life in solitary splendour. Surrounded by ...