I saw Umrao Jaan last night & it really stunk. The first have before the intermussion was basically naptime. It consisted of close ups of Aish's face & frames of Abhishek brooding & looking moody. There was no chemistry at all even though they really tried by overacting.

 It picked up afterwards & became slightly more engaging... but still pretty crappy. J.P Dutta wanted to elaborate on Ameeran/Umrao's inner story, but really it ended being more about Khanum Sahib's inner "struggle". What is the point of remaking a movie that was actually pretty good to begin with? 

Umrao Jaan maybe didn't go over so well in India, but the NY Times gave it a good review. It  grossed $480,000 in its first weekend in North America.

Looks like the Sixth Annual IAAC festival is showing the new Umrao Jaan on Nov 2.  So who wants to go? ^o^