Desicritics Comments on Movie Review: Umrao Jaan vs Umrao Jaan

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Comment by neville

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:59:07 EST

it should have been a sequel. ash shud play the illegtimate daughter of rekha who follws in her mothers footsteps but also .............

Comment by Amrita

Wed, 8 Nov 2006 09:05:55 EST

Anu Malik's characteristic "aaa" type interludes in the music (I almost imagined him thinking of making some remixes where he can insert words like "Its raining, its raining") Hahahah!!! I caught him singing that boring Salaam song for some event in which Shabana Azmi was an honoree and all i could think of was "It's raining, it's raining". I think the trauma will never disappear. Meanwhile, this was hilarious. bitter, but hilarious... and who can blame you, after all?

Comment by Vivek Sharma

Tue, 7 Nov 2006 15:44:56 EST

I recommend Dor to everyone. Will post a review sometime soon.

Comment by bhongi

Tue, 7 Nov 2006 09:50:33 EST

Well written critique. Unfortunately this applies to every hindi movie made these days. Are there any new movies that you recommend at all, so that I can relive at least some of the things that made hindi movies great, without having to come away disgusted 15 min. into the movie? Thanks.

Comment by Rosie

Tue, 7 Nov 2006 09:17:02 EST

So..er...this movie is a flop in the box-office?

Comment by Vijay

Tue, 7 Nov 2006 07:35:19 EST

and the review remains the same. everyone is giving similar reviews, so though being a courageous man I cant gather any courage to go and watch this one even if given free tickets. After all everyone cannot be wrong at the same time.

Comment by temporal

Mon, 6 Nov 2006 17:35:53 EST

sivek vharma: Mujaffar Ali? ;)

Comment by Vivek Sharma

Mon, 6 Nov 2006 09:45:27 EST

Tanay your comment is similar to what I had imagined before I stepped into the theatre. There is no new age Urdu, no adaptation of classic. In fact, in the beginning ten minutes, except for Ruswa, the movie seemed seeped into the Lucknowee tehzeeb, and Aishwarya's opening act was worth an applause. Had the movie been internally consistent, in story, character sketch or dialogue delivery, the movie would have worked for me. With ot without comparing to old Umrao Jaan, one will find that the movie is badly executed. Poetry cited is as bad as it gets, and many scenes are not worth shooting at all.

Comment by Tanay

Mon, 6 Nov 2006 05:33:36 EST

Vivek, I have not seen the movie except for the songs aired on different music channels but have read the reviews of the movie in newspapers and in few websites... Don't you feel that the Rekha's "Umrao Jaan" was vintage one and Ash's "Umrao Jaan" is the neo-age techno one..Lucknowee Urdu has been replaced with anglicised Urdu.. New age and new movie....I guess that is J.P.Dutta's answer on his attempt and so are the loopholes...J.P. Dutta shouldn't have told he is doing a re-make of the old classic, he should have told he is trying his level best to do something on the storyline of the classic...

Comment by Sujatha

Mon, 6 Nov 2006 00:30:14 EST

Then as the endless movie drags on, and your encyclopedia of curses runs out, you have tried moving into every position of utmost discomfort in your chair (and thanks to tea in the interval, you are still awake), you watch Bollywood cinema at its overdramatized, clichéd, artless, pointless, mindless self. Brevity is the soul of wit, but you can't explain that to a dimwit. You may fault on a few things, you must not be allowed to do the crime so expensively, so lavishly. So, you really didn't like the movie, did you? :)