Exclusive: Director Muzaffar Ali opens up on Rekha starrer Umrao Jaan | Filmfare.com

He stated, “Umrao Jaan was stirring my imagination and hearing voices of that era. Often sounds and silence evoke images and Umrao began to take shape scene by scene, day by day, hour by hour till I realised I could do nothing else. From an emotional doorway I was entering the cinematic and technical way into structuring the film.”

Opening up about the screenplay, the director further added, “Screenplay became a language that would evolve into cinematography, dialogues, music and performance. And then the dynamic art of editing. I found my emotions paying off and each combination of a professional relationship elevating. One and one becoming eleven.”

Fascinated through the Awadhi tradition, Muzaffar Ali and his spouse Meera Ali additionally co-founded the House of Kotwara, a couture label this is rooted in heritage, storytelling, and their shared pastime to maintain the normal crafts of Awadh. Interestingly, Rekha’s enigmatic conventional ensembles within the film had been additionally made through their style label.