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  • Muzzafar Ali mulls film on Persian poet Rumi

    Muzzafar Ali mulls film on Persian poet Rumi

    MUMBAI: Muzzafar Ali, known for his films like Umrao Jaan, is currently working on a new project based on great Persian poet Rumi.

    The 68-year-old, also behind other films like Gaman, says that he is awaiting for resources to materialise so that he can begin work on this ambitious project.

    "I am waiting for people with resources to understand my thinking and support my ideas. Sometimes it happens, then it doesn‘t, so there are a lot of ifs and buts. It takes a lot of work to get everyone on the same page," Ali said.

    But before he could hit the floors, the director wants to finish work on his Vinod Khanna-Dimple Kapadia starrer Zooni.

    “Since Zooni is half complete, I want to finish that after which I will start working on the film about ‘Rumi-the poet. Once I have the support, I will think about star cast," he observed.

    Ali was speaking on the sidelines of the 43rd International Film Festival of India where he is being paid a special tribute with his Rekha starrer Umrao Jaan being screened there.

  • Remake of Umrao Jaan on the cards

    Remake of Umrao Jaan on the cards

    MUMBAI: Muzzafar Ali, who had produced and directed the Rekha-starrer 1981 film Umrao Jaan, is planning to make a sequel.

    For the upcoming film, Ali and writer Javed Siddiqui want Rekha to play a cameo. At the end of the original, Umrao Jaan (Rekha) is seen coming back to her kotha without it being shown what is going to happen to her in the English regime.

    “Here we have a story in which we have Umrao Jaan as an older and more mature person. But we don‘t know if this would happen or not,” wondered Siddiqui.

    Umrao Jaan, based on the Urdu novel Umrao Jaan Ada, is based on the life of famous Lucknow courtesan.

    Rekha‘s performance as the central character in the film had won her the first National Award.

    In 2006, J P Dutta had come out with the remake of Umrao Jaan with Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan in the lead roles. However, the film failed miserably at the box office.