Cast : Aishwariya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan, Shabana Azmi, Sunil Shetty
Music : Anu Malik
Written by : J.P. Dutta, O.P. Dutta
Produced and Directed by : J.P. Dutta
Released on : 3 Novemb
Story Line:
In the year 1940 a girl eight year old Amiran (Bansree Mandhani) is kidnapped from her home in Faizabad by Dilawar Khan (Vishwajeet Pradhan) who had been sent to jail based upon the evidence presented by Amiran’s father. To take his revenge, he kidnaps Amiran and sells her to a brothel in Lucknow, run by Khannum Jaan (Shabana Azmi). She is adopted by Bua Hussaini (Himani Shivpuri) and Maulvi Sahib (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) who treat her as their own daughter. Amiran (Aishwarya Rai) becomes couretsan a young girl and her poetry and beauty attracts Nawab Sultan (Abhishek Bachchan) and two romance, but when his father finds out he disowns Nawab Sultan from his life, wealth and property. Faiz Ali (Sunil Shetty) who wants her at all costs takes her to his home, meanwhile she is arrested as a dacoit and when nawab Sultan hears about this Faiz Ali manipulates that Umrao and he had a sexual relationship . So nawaab leaves her and the rest of the movie is all about amiran who meets her parents and the person who sold her.