Muzaffar Ali

Filmmaker

Indian filmmaker and Padma Shri Award winner Rajah Muzaffar Ali gave Indian cinema the cult classic, Umrao Jaan. An alumnus of La Martiniere college in Lucknow, Ali had a successful career as a filmmaker and has four more movies to his credit.

Ali belongs to a royal Muslim family of Kotwara, is also a fashion designer, a poet, an artist, a music-lover, a revivalist, and a social worker.