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Muzaffar Ali is an Indian filmmaker, fashion designer, poet, artist, cultural revivalist, and social worker. He is known for his films Gaman, Umrao Jaan, and Jaanisaar, and his fashion label with Meera Ali.
Jan 28, 2023 · Muzaffar Ali, known for his classic Umrao Jaan, talks about his journey in filmmaking, culture, music and his book Zikr. He shares his views on feudalism, Satyajit Ray, Rekha and his future projects.
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Muzaffar Ali is an Indian filmmaker who has worked on movies such as Umrao Jaan, Congregation and Gaman. He was born in 1944 in Lucknow, British India, and is the father of director Shaad Ali.
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- Director, Writer, Producer
- Lucknow, United Provinces, British India
- Muzaffar Ali
Nov 22, 2022 · Best known for bringing the story of ‘Umrao Jaan‘ to the big screen with his 1981 eponymous musical romantic drama featuring Rekha, and also fostering the traditional handicrafts of Awadh, Muzaffar Ali, 78, dons many hats.
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- Aligarh, Calcutta, and Mumbai
- Cinematic Oeuvre
- Couture, Sufism, Politics
Sent to Aligarh Muslim University at the age of 18, Ali discovers that he made a journey from “a city of beauty to a city of dreams.” Despite his permanent companionship of “makhi,machhar, matri” and his experience of ragging, referred to as “introduction” in the university, Aligarh exerted a lasting influence on his personality, especially its poe...
The chapters on each of his films – Gaman, Umrao Jaan, Aagman, Anjuman, Zooni (unfinished) – enlivened by many vignettes, offer an inside view of his style of filmmaking and of his reasons for putting Awadh at the centre of his films. Gaman, inspired by the poetry of Faiz, made popular by Shahryar’s ghazal “seene mein jalan ankho mein toofan sa kyo...
Ali’s feel for craft and couture, fully reflected in his films, is yet another dimension of his personality. Getting his ideas from his father’s wardrobe and the clothes he had seen in Lucknow, “each ensemble was a language, like Urdu, Awadhi and English.” He feels disappointed to see characters in films let down by their clothing and proud of his ...
Jun 25, 2021 · But nine years later, in 1981, Muzaffar Ali rose to the challenge and adapted the 1905 Urdu novel Umrao Jaan Ada on celluloid, to create his magnum opus, Umrao Jaan.
Nov 26, 2022 · Art knows no boundaries, and Muzaffar Ali’s extensive work as a filmmaker, fashion designer, painter, music composer and social worker bears testimony to this maxim.
