song " Kajra Re ", alongside Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan .   (2006-present) In the year 2006, Rai starred in J P Dutta 's Umrao Jaan an adaptation of the Urdu novel Umrao Jaan Ada (1905), written by Mirza Hadi Ruswa . She portrayed the role of a real life courtesan