Muzaffar Ali’s version featuring Rekha in the title role, begins with little Ameeran in Faizabad abducted to Lucknow to be moulded and shaped into a perfect tawaif, and ends with Umrao grown from the ...

Kanwaljit Singh is amused to find himself in the midst of a hate-wave. By playing the hard-to-please father-in-law to Sanya ...

Muzaffar Ali is a man who wears several hats. The filmmaker, designer, author, artist, and a cultural and social activist, ...