Telling the story of Amiran, who was kidnapped as a young girl and sold in brothel in Lahore to become a renowned courtesan and poetess, Umrao Jaan is what people call an art film, and it is a very good art film at that. Ali adopts Mirza Hadi Ruswa's novel and does it skillfully. rAjOo Ali's Umrao Jaan is a work of great mastery. Watch what Umrao does to escape from being married against her will, and her attempts to try and find her way back to her parents. Umrao re-locates to Kanpur where she establishes herself as a Poet and dancer, but is hunted down by brothel-keepers, Gohar Mirza and Husseini and brought back, where she is told that she must marry Gohar. The young Nawab is smitten by Umrao's beauty and her poems, but is finally forced to marry a girl of his mother's choice, leaving behind a heart-broken and devastated Umrao, who seeks solace in the arms of Faiz Ali and finally elopes with him, only to find out that he is a wanted bandit, and is shot down and killed by guards. She has many patrons, chief amongst them are Nawab Sultan and his father. Years later, Umrao has grown up and is an accomplished poetess as well as dancer extraordinary. It is here Amiran will be re-named Umrao Jaan. After his discharge around 1840, he extracts his vengeance by abducting Amiran and selling to a brothel madam. In Faizabad, British India, Dilawar is sentenced to several years in prison after Amiran's Daroga dad testifies against him.
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