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Muzaffar Ali

ムザッファル・アリー　/　むざっふぁる・ありー

Film director from India

October 21, 1944 (age 81)　・　Lucknow, Lucknow district, India

Lucknow district
film director
screenwriter
film producer

My Take

What fascinates me about Muzaffar Ali is how comfortably he refuses to stay in one lane. Filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, fashion designer, poet, cultural revivalist, all at once and none of it feels like dabbling. To me his 1982 Filmfare Best Director award is less the headline than the proof of a deeper instinct: he treats cinema, cloth and verse as one continuous language. Coming out of Lucknow, a city steeped in poetry and craft, that range reads as inheritance rather than ambition. I admire artists who serve a culture rather than just a career, and Ali strikes me as exactly that kind of devoted, quietly ambitious creator.

Overview

Muzaffar Ali (born 21 October 1944) is an Indian filmmaker, fashion designer, poet, artist, cultural revivalist, and social worker.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Muzaffar Ali
Name (Japanese): ムザッファル・アリー
Reading: むざっふぁる・ありー
Born: October 21, 1944 (age 81)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Libra / Monkey
Origin: Lucknow, Lucknow district, India
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: film director / screenwriter / film producer / fashion designer / poet

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Sri Venkateswara University

Awards & achievements

1982 Filmfare Award for Best Director
Padma Shri in arts

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B6%E3%83%83%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC

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