Muzaffar Ali
Muzaffar Ali (born October 21, 1944 in Lucknow ) is an Indian film director Hindi / Urdu films , painter, fashion designer and musician.
Life
Raja Syed Muzaffar Ali was born as the eldest son of Raja Syed Sajid Husain Ali of Kotwara . He attended La Martiniere College in his hometown and received a Bachelor of Science degree from Aligarh Muslim University in 1966 . He then worked for the advertising agencies Clarion-McCann and Advertising & Sales Promotion and from 1970 to 1981 in the public relations department of Air India . As an amateur painter, Muzaffar Ali had exhibitions in Aligarh , Lucknow , Calcutta and Bombay .
His first cinematic work was the poverty drama Gaman (1978), supported by the state-run Film Finance Corporation , about the rural exodus to the metropolis of Bombay. The film with Farooq Shaikh and Smita Patil in the leading roles received the Special Jury Prize of the National Film Awards . With the subsequent costume drama Umrao Jaan (1981), Muzaffar Ali was able to pursue his penchant for creative design together with the set designer Bansi Chandragupta . The title role of the dancer in this film adaptation of Mirza Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's Urdu novel Umrao Jaan Ada ( Eng . "The Courtesan of Lucknow") from 1899 played Rekha . The film earned a Filmfare Award for Best Director .
In the 1980s, Muzaffar Ali made frequent documentaries and short films . He worked on the political issues together with his then wife Subhashini Ali , a trade unionist and CPI (M) politician from Kanpur and daughter of Lakshmi Sehgal . Their son with Subhashini, Shaad Ali , has also made a name for himself as a film director. Muzaffar Ali's 1983 feature film Aagaman deals with the economic exploitation of farm workers in a sugar mill and is inspired by Faiz Ahmad Faiz 's revolutionary poetry . This and the feature film Anjuman that followed in 1986 - with Shabana Azmi in the lead role - tie in with his directorial debut with their immanent demand for fair treatment of ordinary workers.
Muzaffar Ali also appears in the television film Jaan-e-Alam (1986). The story is inspired by the famous Nautanki -Theaterstück Indrasabha that Sayed Agha Hasan Amanat 1853 for the Nawab of Avadh Wajid Ali Shah wrote. Muzaffar Ali tried with Jaan-e-Alam to rehabilitate Wajid Ali Shah, who is known as for no good. His last film project Zooni with Vinod Khanna and Dimple Kapadia has remained unfinished and unpublished.
Since the 1990s he has focused particularly on his business as a fashion designer and published his own music. He supported the Samajwadi Party of Mulayam Singh Yadav and stood unsuccessfully in the election of the parliament of Uttar Pradesh in October 1993.
In 2005 Muzaffar Ali was awarded the Padma Shri . He is married to the designer Meera Ali.
Filmography
- 1978: Gaman
- 1981: Umrao Jaan
- 1982: Vasiquedars: Pensioners of Avadh - documentary
- 1982: Woodcrafts of Saharanpur - documentary
- 1982: Venue India - documentary
- 1982: Laila Majnu Ki Nai Nautanki - documentary
- 1983: Sunehre Sapne - short film
- 1983: Wah! Maan Gaye Ustad - short film
- 1983: Aagaman
- 1984: Vadakath: A Thervad in Kerala - documentary
- 1984: Together Forever - short film
- 1984: Wapas Chalo - TV short film
- 1984: Kue Yaar Mein - documentary
- 1985: Ganga Teri Shakti Apaar - documentary
- 1985: India, an Unusual Environment for Meetings - documentary
- 1985: Sheeshon Ka Masiha - documentary
- 1986: Anjuman
- 1986: Jaan-e-Alam - TV movie
- 1986: Aaya Basant Sakhi - short film
- 1986: Kali Mohini - short film
- 1986: Semal Ki Darakht - short film
- 1991: Khizan - documentary
literature
- Entry on Muzaffar Ali in Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 40 f.
Web links
- Muzaffar Ali in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- www.muzaffarali.com
- A man for all arts
- The Raja of Kotwara
- Bollywood has lost the plot: Muzaffar Ali in The Times of India of September 17, 2009
- Muzaffar Ali in Lucknow in The Times of India on August 4, 2010
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ali, Muzaffar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian film director Hindi / Urdu films, painter, fashion designer and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lucknow |