WORST MOVIE EVER


It has floped in India and doing so bad in its 2nd week around the world. What a shame!

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I totally and utterly agree with you. Ash has not been able to match Rekha in this movie. I am an Ash fan and was expecting a wonderful movie and more so, the Mujrah as I am a great admirer of Ash's dancing skills.

I watched the movie a few days ago and am horror-struck by the quality of the Mujrah dances in the movie. Should we blame the choreographer or the dancer - Ash ?

When we got back home, my wife insisted that we play a DVD containing songs from the old Umrao Jaan. Comparing it, we discovered that we were not wrong.

Mujrah places a lot on Lachak, Machak and Ada/ Nakhra. If you watch Madhuri Dixit in the song "Yeh kis ne haraah rang daala", you will notice the Ada/ Nakhraa, the stabbing of the ground with the fist, the dropping back of the head, the twirl of the eyes, the flickering of the eyes, the dismissal of a thought with flapping of the hand; the list goes on.

In old Umrao Jaan, Rekha displayed similar Ada which is completely absent in the new Umrao Jaan.

As for Lachak, if you view the smart body twirls with rhythm of the tabla music of Madhuri in "Yeh kis ne haraah rang daala" you will see the Lachak. Rekha did a similar (though less Lachakful) Mujrah in the old Umrao Jaan.

The scene of the Mujrah in Faizabad was something I waited for desperately. It falls way short of the "Yeh kya jagah hai doston" in the old Umrao Jaan and the new Umrao Jaan's fate was sealed.

Ash, oh meri Ash, "Yeh too ney kya kar daala ?"

By Mujrah-Aashiq
Mujrah DVDs are my drinking partners when I travel overseas which is a lot)

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Is the movie that bad? A few of my friends in India walked out in the interval. Its playing in a few London theatres. Is it worth £10?

The soundtrack is pretty average. Was shocked intially Anu Malik was the music Director. Beside 'Salaam' - all tracks are average or even below average.

Is the movie that bad??

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I have waited for two weeks to go see it, and inspite of all the 'warnings' my well-wishers gave, I saw it today.

It is not bad a movie. Agreed, there were more tears than required, but then, you have to watch it for Aish's performance, lovely lyrics, great costumes, and of course for Umrao herself.

The movie wouldn't score on the 'entertainment' parameter, but then go see it for Umrao and her life...

I gave it a 7

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a new look to the same story with a prettier face in it ... well, its a rendition of a different director, hence its bound to be different....

its abt watching the movies with different flavors from different folks... not just the story ...

Aish is new... accord to me she rocked as the new Umrao.. and also watch it for the prob the biggest casting error of all time... Suneil Shetty in Umrao Jaan !!!... har har har... that guy was hilarious...

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I rented it on Nexflix and it is bad bollywood. I would not have minded the dated 1950's hollywood romance without reality, or the cliche plot, and the redundant songs, or the cardboard characters, or the cliche 'I must forgive all of the bad men in my life because I am a saint', except that I know too much Indian History and the film is ridiculous historically.

the brothel girls suddenly are aware there is a Mutiny on and rush away! Excuse me! Lucknow was the site of a nearly 6 month battle! the mutineers looted and sacked Lucknow! historic fact! Then they besieged the British for months with two rescue armies trying to break through to save the British (because after Cawnpore they knew if they surrendered then every man, woman, and child would be butchered to death). There were major battles that all but blew Lucknow away! Lucknow was left looking like Berlin after WWII! Then the Sikhs, Gurkhas, and British looted and sacked Lucknow a second time!

How can any movie say thses whores had absolutely no idea a major war was occuring all around them for months! Do you think soldiers looting and sacking a city (the 'freedom fighters') would not have looted and burned the brothel and raped them? That is what they did in Delhi! historic fact!

They flee along roads curiously empty of rioters and looters and dacoits when during the Mutiny it was total MAD MAX TIME! A total breakdown of law and order! peasants rioting! bodyguards killing their rajah and nawab bosses, armies on the rampage, armies rushing up and down roads (ok the bullock and camel pace was 2 miles a hour but still for the armies they were rushing!) And these lovely whores don't see anything or anyone?

The heroine is wooed by a Dacoit who suddenly has a ton of money and no one bothers to ask why? During the mutiny the Dacoits encircled Delhi and all the ciites in the North East and robbed, looted, and killed everyone on the road trying to flee the battles! Dude! they were robber barons! Didin't it bother anyone they were taking money from a man terrorizing people fleeing Delhi?

The Nawab worries about his son and this girl. Sure! He had bigger worries! a third of the Nawabs and Rajh were paid by the British with half million pound sterling pensions! Half million in 1857! I really don't think this Nawab was worried about a whore! If the British fell he would lose his money and his job! his bodyguard might kill him! the peasants rioting might kill him! the 'freedom fighting mutineers' might kill him and loot his rich digs!

If the movie had not shown any reality at all then sure! Fantasy Time! But the movie showed the mutiny in Lucknow as a bunch of bad British murderers and their evil sepoys marching into Lucknow to slaughter heroic freedom fighters! Begining and end of Mutiny! I am sorry! But that is like showing a German whore in Berlin talking about WWII and showing only the British marching into Berlin to slaughter all of the innocent German Girls!

Either keep reality out of a fantasy story or else at least try to be honest!

J E F

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