Though fortune seemed to smile down on her against all odds, Umrao soon fell in love with the powerful Nawab Sultan and longed to start a family with the influential figure despite the fact that their love seemed doomed from the onset. Yet despite all of her success, something was missing in the life of the girl now known as Umrao. Subsequently given the name Umrao, raised in the lap of luxury, and trained to be a great entertainer, the young girl would grow up to become one of the most beautiful and popular entertainers of her time. Determined to curse his accuser with a fate worse than death, the vengeful ex-convict spirited the man's daughter away and sold the young girl - then known as Amiran - to a brothel in Lucknow. Previously adapted for the screen to great acclaim in 1981, Ruswa's novel tells the story of a middle class girl kidnapped by a habitual offender who had been imprisoned for ten years as a result of her father's damning testimony. Aishwarya Rai stars in the lead role along with Abhishek Bachchan, Shabana Azmi, Sunil Shetty, Divya Dutta, Himani Shivpuri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda in supporting roles. Dutta, based on the Urdu novel Umrao Jaan Ada and is about the famous courtesan of the title. Dutta's adaptation of author Mirza Haadi Ruswa's classic 1905 novel. Umrao Jaan is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language musical romantic drama film produced and directed by J. A young courtesan kidnapped from her home and sold into slavery ultimately transcends her grim fate in director J.P.
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