All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to ...

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at ...

Muzaffar Ali reflects on his artistic journey with Umrao Jaan, emphasising the importance of faith and cultural understanding ...

Unlike other famous courtesans of Hindi cinema and literature, Umrao Jan’s story has been revisited time and again over the last 125 years, her iconic status reinforced with each re-telling ...

Director Muzaffar Ali's epic-drama 'Umrao Jaan' (1981), re-released in theatres on June 27. What makes the film still ...

An exclusive interview that brings out interesting facts about the making of the film and what the re-release means for the ...

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 ...

The allure of Umrao Jaan is not just in its characters’ recitals; the film embodies poetry in its form. It is no wonder then, ...

Started as a memory project in 2020, this collection of true stories about the inventive ways in which Kashmiris must ...

Poet whose name spread like fragrance in the world of Urdu ghazal now disillusioned with the state of mushaira Urdu will survive as it is a fusion of regional languages: Jamil ...

Alia Bhatt was all smiles as she posed for a picture with Rekha during the screening. The 31-year-old actress paid tribute to the veteran star by recreating Rekha’s iconic sari ...