Anaarkali of Aarah is the story of Anaarkali (Swara Bhaskar), who makes a living by performing to erotic songs at functions. During one of her stage shows, Anaarkali comes across Dharmender Chauhan (Sanjay Mishra), the vice chancellor of a local university, who tries to molest her. This leads to a conflict between the two, where Dharmender is in a position of power, but Anaarkali refuses to give in to the challenges, and instead decides to fight back.
According to Avinash Das, the director of Anaarkali of Aarah, the idea to make this film originated after he watched a music video of Bhojpuri folk artist Tarabano Faizabadi in which she was singing an erotic song Hare Hare Nebuaa. He says, "It intrigued me that visuals of Tarabano singing expressionless in a studio were mixed with a sequence in which a woman is trying to seduce a man.[7] In 2011, a Bhojpuri folk singer, Devi, stood up against the Vice Chancellor of Jai Prakash Narayan University for molesting her at an event.[8] These two incidents helped Avinash in the creation of Anaarkali, the central character of his film. Avinash says, "These two threads began to form into a script about a street singer who sings erotically-charged songs but has the integrity to challenge the powers when she is mistreated."[7]
Initially, the central role of Anaarkali was supposed to be played by Richa Chadda but she opted out of the project, the reason for it being, as stated by Director Avinash, that she was unsure of the film getting a release considering it was smaller budget film as compared to the projects that she was doing at that time.[7][9][10]
The soundtrack of Anaarkali of Aaarah comprises 10 songs, all of them composed by Rohit Sharma while the lyrics have been written by Ramkumar Singh, Dr. Sagar, Ravinder Randhawa, Prashant Ingole and Avinash Das.[12][13]
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