Mumbai:
Veteran actress Rekha's performance in Muzaffar Ali's Umrao Jaan (1981) not only won the new Rajya Sabha MP her first National Award but also made an entire nation hum the soulful songs from the film.
It was Muzaffar Ali's first liaison with the camera. After directing one more film, he retired to a quiet life of designing, poetry and paintings. Buzz is that Rekha might actually do a cameo in a sequel that is being planned to the original film.
The talented director is planning a comeback to Bollywood and has asked his friend and screenplay writer of the original Umrao Jaan, Javed Siddiqui to write the sequel and the screenplay for him.
Siddiqui said: "Yes, I'm working on a script for Muzaffar saab and we will be working together after 30 years. The film is very much on the lines of a sequel to Umrao Jaan."
There is a strong buzz that the makers are trying very hard to get Rekha to be a part of the cast.
It was Muzaffar Ali's first liaison with the camera. After directing one more film, he retired to a quiet life of designing, poetry and paintings. Buzz is that Rekha might actually do a cameo in a sequel that is being planned to the original film.
The talented director is planning a comeback to Bollywood and has asked his friend and screenplay writer of the original Umrao Jaan, Javed Siddiqui to write the sequel and the screenplay for him.
Siddiqui said: "Yes, I'm working on a script for Muzaffar saab and we will be working together after 30 years. The film is very much on the lines of a sequel to Umrao Jaan."
There is a strong buzz that the makers are trying very hard to get Rekha to be a part of the cast.
