Zubeidaa : (2001-movie) : Bollywood Hindi Film

Zubeidaa Movie Details :

Zubeidaa is a 2001 Indian film directer is Shyam Benegal and writter is Khalid Mohammed. It stars Karisma Kapoor, Rekha, Manoj Bajpayee, Surekha Sikri, Rajit Kapoor, Lillete Dubey, Amrish Puri, Farida Jalal, and Shakti Kapoor. Renowned musician A.R.Rahman has scored the background music and soundtrack for the movie.

Zubeidaa is the concluding chapter in a trilogy that began with Mammo (1994) and continued with Sardari Begum (1996). The film is based on the life of the ill-fated actress Zubeida Begum, who married Hanwant Singh of Jodhpur and was the mother of the film’s writer, Khalid Mohamed.

The film garnered the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi and won Karisma Kapoor a Filmfare Award for Best Actress . It is regarded by many critics as Kapoor’s Best performance (alongside Fiza where she also played the title role). The film was highly acclaimed and is regarded as of one of Benegal’s best works blurring the lines of commercial and parallel cinema.

• Directer : Shyam Benegal
• Producer : Farouq Rattonsey
• Screenplay : Khalid Mohamed
• Story : Khalid Mohamed
• Starring : Karisma Kapoor,Rekha,Manoj Bajpayee,Amrish Puri,Farida Jalal,Lillete Dubey,Shakti Kapoor
• Music : A. R. Rahman
• Cinematography : Rajan Kothari
• Edited : Aseem Sinha
• Art Direction : Samir Chanda
• Costume Design : Pia Benegal
• Makeup Department : Arun,Jeevan Borkar,Milind Chauhan,Tina D’Souza,Deepak
• Visual Effects : Madhava Reddy,Jayadev Tiruveaipati
• Action Directer : Nand Kishore Joshi
• Productioncompany : FKR Productions
• Distributed : Yash Raj Films
• Genres : Biography,Drama,History,Musical,Romance
• Release date : 19 January 2001
• Running time : 153 minutes
• Language : Hindi

Star Cast of The Film :

• Karisma Kapoor … Zubeidaa Suleiman Seth/Zubeidaa Mehboob Alam/Rani Meenakshi Devi
• Rekha … Maharani Mandira Devi
• Manoj Bajpayee … Maharaja Vijayendra Singh
• Rahul Singh … Raja Digvijay “Uday” Singh
• Rajit Kapur … Riyaz Masud
• Surekha Sikri … Fayyazi
• Amrish Puri … Suleiman Seth
• Farida Jalal … Mammo
• Shakti Kapoor … Dance Master Hiralal
• Lillete Dubey … Rose Davenport
• Ravi Jhankal … Girivar Singh
• Smriti Mishra … Sardari Begum
• S M Zaheer … Sajid Masud
• Harish Patel … Nandlal Seth
• Seema Bhargava
• Parzaan Dastur … Young Riyaz
• Devendra Malhotra … Old Maharaja
• Kiran Rathore … Maid
• Raj Dedhia … Young Rohan
• Rahul Singh … Uday Singh (as Raahul Maharya)
• Vinod Sharawat … Mehboob Alam
• Rajesh Divkar … Watchman
• Rambali … Watchman
• Gehna Singh … Baby Riyaz
• Mayank … Baby Riyaz

Story of The Film :

The film begins with Riyaz (Rajat Kapoor), Zubeida’s son setting out to research her life, and to meet the people who knew her. The story is thus told in the form of memories/reminiscences. Zubeida is a Muslim actress, who’s career aspirations are thwarted by her film-producer father (Puri) who looks down upon a woman in acting. He arranges her marriage to her friend’s son, but that breaks up after the birth of her son. Zubeida is now back at her parent’s home, sad and depressed. Rose (Lilette Dubey) her father’s mistress tries to cheer-up Zubeida by taking her out. On one of these outings, Zubeida meets Prince Vijayendra (Victor) Singh of Fatehpur (Bajpai). Quite taken with her, the Prince woos and marries her. Zubeida, now the 2nd wife of a Hindu prince, leaves her son behind with her mother (Sikri) and comes to live at Fatehpur. Here she meets the much older Mandira Devi (Rekha) the Prince’s first wife, learns about the etiquette of being a Rani, and of the duties her husband has towards his first wife. Zubeida’s relationship with Mandira (whom she calls Mandy didi) is tumultuous, seesawing between affection and jealousy. She frets about the restrictions on her as Rani and the choke-hold of royal duties on Victor, often venting out her frustrations at not having her husband to herself. When Victor decides to contest the elections, he relies on Mandira, as his Hindu consort (as opposed to Zubeida), to accompany him on his political jaunts. Zubeida, angry at being spurned, in obstinacy takes a decision, which has fatal consequences.

Zubeidaa Movie Songs / Music :

The soundtrack was released in 2000 and contained eight tracks, all composer is A. R. Rahman, with lyrics is Javed Akhtar. Lata Mangeshkar collaborated with the musician again for couple of tracks. Other singers, Kavita Krishnamurthy and Alka Yagnik walked away with all accolades for their renditions in their respective tracks.

• “Dheeme Dheeme” – Kavita Krishnamurthy
• “Main Albeli” – Kavita Krishnamurthy, Sukhwinder Singh
• “Mehndi Hai Rachnewali” – Alka Yagnik
• “So Gaye Hain” – Lata Mangeshkar
• “Hai Na” – Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan
• “Pyaara Sa Gaon” – Lata Mangeshkar
• “So Gaye Hain” – Lata Mangeshkar, Chorus
• “Chhodo More Baiyyan” – Richa Sharma

“Dheeme Dheeme” Full Video Song :

• Song Name – Dheeme Dheeme
• Singer – Kavita Krishnamurthy
• Music Composer – A.R. Rahman
• Lyricist – Javed Akhtar
• Music Label – Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.

“Mehndi Hai Rachnewali” Full Video Song :

• Singer – Alka Yagnik
• Music Composer – A.R. Rahman
• Lyricist – Javed Akhtar
• Music Label – Sony Music Entertainment India Pvt. Ltd.

Zubeidaa Movie Review :

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 6.2 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 1443.

I saw this movie with minimal expectations. Except that Shyam Benegal is known to make ‘art’ movies.

I left with a most wonderful feeling. Shyam Benegal has bridged the gap between serious movies and the pot boilers produced by Bollywood. I don’t expect this movie to be a hit. But here are the things I found fascination in the movie .

Critics Rating by Aslam Ansari, from Times Of India give 4.5 star out of 5 Star.

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