A stirring and emotionally dramatic epic revolving around the ideal of the Hindu mother figure. The defiant heroine battles famine, flood, a fiendish moneylender and sundry tragic accidents in the ceaseless struggle to raise her sons and retain the family's few acres. Perhaps THE classic early Bollywood and representing a male dominated world that succeeds in being considerably more positive in its depiction of women than beliefs at the time might lead you to expect.
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UMRAO JAAN (1981)
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The epic tale of a young girl, stolen from her family and sold to a Kothawali, who grows into a beautiful woman with an angelic voice. Umrao's one true love marries another and she vows she will never perform again. Umrao Jaan is a true Bollywood classic, lush, melodramatic and with song and dance aplenty.
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