A newly restored print of Umrao Jaan will have its European premiere at the Tongues on Fire UK Asian Film Festival. It stars Rekha as the titular Lucknow courtesan and poet

When I approached her for Umrao Jaan (1981), with Khayyam shaping the music and Shahryar giving it language, to inhabit the world of Rekha, she sensed immediately that this was not a recording — it was a reckoning.