Muzaffar Ali Wiki, Age, Art, Wife, Children, Family, Biography & More – FilmyVoice

Muzaffar Ali (21 October 1944) is an Indian Filmmaker, clothier, poet, artist, cultural revivalist, and social employee. He’s greatest identified for movies like Gaman (1978) and Umrao Jaan (1981). Ali has completed a lot in lots of fields together with publicity, tourism, movie manufacturing, trend, and writing.

Wiki/Biography

Muzaffar Ali was born on 21 October 1944 (age 79 years; as of 2023)  in Lucknow, United Provinces, British India. He was the eldest son of Raja Syed Sajid Husain Ali, the ruling prince of Kotwara, Awadh. He attended La Martiniere, a non-public academic establishment for the elite class in Lucknow. He graduated from Aligarh Muslim College within the discipline of science. Earlier than getting into the movie business he labored in promoting. He has additionally labored as a communication specialist for Air India.

Muzaffar Ali

Bodily Look

Peak (approx.): 5′ 8″

Weight (approx.): 75kg

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Brown

Muzaffar Ali throughout a photograph shoot for his upcoming movie

Household

Muzaffar Ali belongs to a royal Muslim Rajput household of Kotawara.

Mother and father & Siblings

Ali’s father, Raja Syed Sajid Husain of Kotwara, was a royal prince who contributed to the Indian freedom motion. He did an MA from Edinburgh and was a member of the Scottish Parliament within the twenties earlier than becoming a member of Indian politics as an MLA from Kotwara for nearly 17 years earlier than and after independence. He ran a casual group, the Indian Humanist Union, which met month-to-month over tea in Qaisar Bagh, Lucknow, to debate concepts that will change the world. Ali is the eldest amongst three kids and a half-sister from his Turkish stepmother.

Muzaffar Ali, his half-sister Kenize Murad and father Raja S Sajid Husain with Jawaharlal Nehru

Spouse & Kids

Ali’s first marriage was with artwork historian Geeti Sen. They’ve a son, Murad Ali, who’s multi-disciplined very similar to his father, and has acted in movies equivalent to Is Raat ki Subah Nahin and Dil to Pagal Hai and in addition fiddled with poetry and music. Ali has admitted having “Leftist sympathies” throughout his time in Calcutta (now Kolkata). Thereupon, he married Left chief and commerce union activist Subhashini Ali, who additionally labored as a designer of the costumes for Umrao Jaan. Their son, Shaad Ali, is the director of hit movies equivalent to Saathiya and Bunty Aur Babli. 

Muzaffar Ali together with his son Shaad Ali and grandson Imaan

Ali met designer and architect Meera Ali on the set of a movie and ultimately received married. They each teamed as much as create a distinct segment of kinds when it got here to ethnic material designing with a novel Kotwara contact. They’ve a daughter, Sama, who can be displaying an inclination for design.

Muzaffar Ali (middle) and Meera Ali (standing left) with daughter Sama (seated left), son Shaad, daughter-in-law Aarti Patkar (seated proper), and grandson Imaan.

Relationships/Affairs

Ali was married twice earlier than he met his present spouse Meera Ali, whom he courted and married after six months. He met his first spouse Geeti Sen throughout his Air India days and his second spouse Subhashini Ali, daughter of Colo­nel Prem Sehgal and Captain Lakshmi Sehgal of the Indian Nationwide Military, who labored with him on his greatest hit Umrao Jaan.

Muzaffar Ali with spouse Meera Ali

Caste

Muzaffar Ali belongs to a Muslim Rajput household.

Autograph

Muzaffar Ali autograph

Profession

Movie & Tv

Ali had a profitable profession as a filmmaker. Within the early Seventies, Ali labored for the promoting agency MacLaren McCann and met Satyajit Ray. His first movie was Gamam (1978) and his subsequent movie was his greatest hit i.e., Umrao Jaan (1981). Aagaman (1982), Anjuman (1986), and Jaanisaar (2015) are a number of movies made by him. He additionally made and starred within the TV sequence Jaan-e-Alaam (1986).

Portray & Vogue

Ali has all the time been an artist. The medium of collage attracted him and he started devoting his time to the artwork. He exhibited his work in exhibitions throughout India. Mesmeric Sufi music, and ladies in black, all within the type of intricate aesthetics mirrored in his work.  He arrange a studio in Delhi and commenced his journey as an artist. Greater than 100 of his artworks unfold by means of 11 sections of this lovely heritage constructing, which was as soon as the home of the maharaja of Bikaner and is now a cultural middle on the India Gate hexagon.

Muzaffar Ali’s debut present on non-film artwork ventures in Delhi.

Muzaffar Ali at his artwork exhibition in Delhi

After creating an influence globally together with his work, Ali turned again to his roots in Kotwara and Lucknow. He launched his couture line with the assistance of his spouse Meera, ‘Kotwara’, and is concerned in a number of initiatives that remember artwork and fosters the normal handicrafts of Awadh, and promote Sufism.

Muzaffar Ali’s Kotwara model emblem

Music

In 2004 he instituted the Rumi Basis to advertise World Oneness which holds Sufi festivals together with the World Sufi Music Pageant,  Jahan-e- Khusaru in Delhi.

In an effort to advertise tourism and tradition in Lucknow, he instituted the Wajid Ali Shah Pageant which celebrates poetry and performing arts.

Awards

• Nationwide Movie Award – Particular Point out (characteristic movie) – Gaman (1978)
• Filmfare Award for Finest Director – Umrao Jaan (1981)
• Padma Shri (2005)
• Rajeev Gandhi Sadhbhavana Award (2014)

Web Price

Ali’s internet value is $1 million as of the yr 2023.

Details/Trivia

• In 1994, He was directing a movie titled Husn E Jaana with Rubaina Khan (Gangster). He later determined to shelve the movie.

• When Husn E Jaana received shelved, he launched the songs as a non-public album in 1996.

• He was planning a movie titled Manzar with Zeenat Aman that received shelved. This was in 1984. It was restarted as Zooni with Dimple and Vinod Khanna.

•  His Vinod Khanna-Dimple Kapadia starrer Zooni continues to be unreleased.

• In 2022, Ali launched his autobiographical e-book titled ‘Zikr: Within the Gentle and Shade of Time’ describing his early days and journey.

Zikr- Within the Gentle and Shade of Time

• Muzaffar Ali alongside together with his spouse Meera Ali have opened up their homestead in Gurgaon and arrange a tent restaurant “Maashra”. It gives a high quality eating expertise according to the royal delicacies of Awadh.

Muzaffar Ali’s Maashra

• In 2008, there was a slight contretemps between Ali and movie director Rituparno Gosh because of the seems to be of actor Amitabh Bachchan for the movie ‘The Final Lear’. Ali felt the look was a replica of his personal model, nonetheless, Rituparno denied the allegations and maintained that the look was an inspiration from Rabindranath Tagore.

• Muzaffar Ali is a black belt in karate. He has been coaching for a number of years now.

• Ali is extraordinarily keen on horses and that additionally displays in his paintings. In an interview with The Occasions Of India, he stated,

My love for horses started from childhood tales of the battlefield of “Karbala” to the ornate Duldul to the horses I noticed on my travels to the numerous movies on horses.”