She swipes at the mirror - and freeze frame of her looking in the mirror. In the end, Umrao returns to the brothel she lived in as a child wrecked by British soldiers - with only a mirror remaining. Uses color matching in wardrobe between connected significant events - particularly in arranged marriages.
Filmed in Urdu.įilm uses close ups of main girl's face for an understanding of her responses. All songs in film are diagetic - there are no traditional fantasy sequences.
The ending is surreal - she sees her mother during a performance and drifts off to talk. Umrao gains her freedom when the British attack Lucknow. The film shows the woman as freed from a husband's control, but also makes sure her commodity is understood. Based on a novel at from the turn of the 20th century - based on 1840-70, where brothels were places of education where prostitutes would provide their clients with cultured conversation. There, she is raised and educated in the highest forms of cultivated arts.
(Muzzfar Ali, 1981) About a woman that is kidnapped by slavers from her home, and sold to a brothel in Lucknow.
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