Patriarchal Society and her Mother tell to let it go as an isolated incident, but she knows that she can’t live with a man who is capable of doing such a thing. This shakes the core of her entire existence, and she moves in with her parents, and seeks divorce. Based in an educated, well to do setting, Amrita (Taapsee Pannu) and Vikram (Pavail Gulati) are the picture of marital bliss until he slaps her in front of his colleagues, at a house party. While older Indian cinema glorified this type of behavior, Thappad turns old tropes on the head, of how domestic violence should never be tolerated. He performs the thumping ‘Apna Time Aayega’ (My time will come) and delights the audience.Ĭast: Taapsee Pannu, Dia Mirza, Ratna Pathak Shah, Manav Kaul, Pavail Gulati

One of India’s top rappers Emiway Bantai performs, and then the original ‘Gully Boy’ rapper Divine, invites Murad on stage. We follow the twists and turns of how his aims to turn his musical dreams into a reality, battling more than just words, but people, staid office jobs and social conventions that stand in his way. Performing in a concert to impress rapper Nas becomes Murad’s goal. Key protagonist Murad Ahmed, played to perfection by Ranveer Singh, goes on an Eminem, 8 Mile-style journey, honing his craft with Shrikant ‘MC Sher’ Bhosle (Siddhant Chaturvedi) and Shweta ‘Sky’ Mehta (Kalki Koechlin) as supporters, while tending to his overprotective, doctor-to-be girlfriend, Safeena Firdausi (Alia Bhatt). Like Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, this film is set in the vibrant Dharavi slums of Mumbai. With no other options in sight, Nawab is forced to move into a state of exile in the country meanwhile, as Umrao's heart breaks from the separation, she is greeted by the most unwelcome favors of a local bandit, Faiz Ali (Suneil Shetty), who secretly vows to do everything in his power to win Umrao over and undo the strands of Nawab's devotion to her.Cast: Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Kalki Koechlin, Vijay Raaz, Kubra Sait Yet all does not go according to plan: disgusted with his son's choice of partner, Nawab's father disowns him, and Khanum, the matriarch of the brothel, quickly refuses to take in an non-paying boarder. Her superiors teach her music, poetry and dance as part of her courtesan training when her 'debut' finally arrives as a courtesan, the gods are with her, for a young aristocrat, Nawab Sultan (Abhishek Bachchan) falls instantly for her, and she for him, and moves into the kotha to consummate their love and begin a life together. Ameeran's path collides with destiny when she is kidnapped at a tender age by her father's enemies, promptly sold into a kotha (or brothel) in the city of Lucknow, and renamed Umrao Jaan. As Umrao narrates, the film then flashes back to well over a half-century earlier, when she - originally a young girl, named Ameeran - is born comfortably into an affluent upper middle-class family in the city of Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. Aishwarya Rai stars as the title character as the film opens, she is an elderly courtesan detailing her life for the benefit of the belletrist Mirza Mohammed Hada Ruswa who plans to document the woman's story for successive generations.

Dutta authored the Indian period drama Umrao Jaan - the epic, three-hour story of a prostitute's travails in 19th century India.

Umrao jaan 1981 cast