Lucky Ali

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Lucky Ali
Lucky Ali

Maqsood Mehmood Ali (born September 19, 1958), popularly known as Lucky Ali, is an Indian singer and celebrity. He has also acted in Bollywood movies. Lucky is best known for his soulful but strikingly simple ballad-style singing.

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[edit] Personal Albums

Lucky made his debut on the Indian pop scene with his soulful album Sunoh which made him very popular. This album won many top awards including the Best Pop Male Vocalist at the 1996 Screen Awards and the Channel V Viewers Choice Award in 1997. It stayed on the MTV Asia Charts for 60 weeks.The song O SANAM in that album is considered by some to be one of the best indi-pop songs ever. However, his next album, Sifar, was not as successful as the first. Lucky Ali is known for distinctive music style and also for his husky voice. His third album was Aks and it did pretty well.

[edit] Playback singing career

With Hrithik Roshan's debut movie Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai, Lucky entered into the world of playback singing. The songs Na tum jaano na hum and Ek pal ka jeena became huge hits and he won the Filmfare award (best male playback singer) for Na tum jaano na hum .

[edit] Acting career

Being the nephew of Meena Kumari, one of the great actresses to grace the Indian screen, and moreover being Mehmood's son, Lucky Ali did not lack the requisite opportunity to make his debut as an actor. His most popular and commercial Bollywood movie role was in a Sanjay Gupta's Kaante where he acted along leading stars like legend Amitabh Bachchan, Sunjay Dutt and Suniel Shetty. His other performances include Shyam Benegal 's Trikaal, where he played Erasmo, the young Portuguese doctor who comes home to get married. He worked with Benegal again in Discovery of India, in which he played Ashoka's brother Tissa, who was instrumental in drawing him towards a path of non-violence. Lucky also acted in the TV serial Zara Hatke.

In 2002, he acted in the hindi musical 'Sur' essaying a complex role that earned him accolades as an actor.

[edit] Personal life

Lucky Ali is the second of the eight children of popular Bollywood comedian, Mehmood. His mother Madhuri, was a Bengali and the sister of a popular Indian actress of the 1960s - Meena Kumari. He attended Bangalore's prestigious Bishop Cottons Boys School.

His first wife was Masooma, who accepted Islam after marrying Lucky Ali, who also acted in the video O Sanam from his first album Sunoh. He has two children from his first wife - Tasmia and Ta'awwuz. Lucky is married to a second wife, Inaya. She was Anaida (Parsi) before marrying Lucky. She also accepted Islam after marriage. Lucky Ali's third child is a girl named Sara from his second wife.

Lucky and his father Mehmood did not get along very well. Mehmood was a very busy actor in 1960s, and remained away from home for his shoots. Once, when Lucky's mother came with him to receive Mehmood at the airport, Lucky didn't recognize his father and on seeing him said, "He's the film comedian Mehmood!" Lucky has tried marijuana and his drug abuse problem led Mehmood to write the script of the movie Dushman Duniya Ka (Enemy of the World). The movie stars Ali's youngest brother, 21 year old Manzoor. It is the story of the drug abuse of a young man called Lucky. In the end the young man kills his mother, destroys everything around him and finally kills himself. Lucky Ali was furious with his father's vision and refused to act in the movie. "I felt the story lacked hope," he said. However he sang his first song for a movie for the film.

Lucky's wanderlust has taken him many places. Lucky used to breed race horses, and also ran a carpet-cleaning business with his friend Aslam (who penned the lyrics for his first album Sunoh). He then worked in an oil rig in Pondicherry. He has settled somewhere near Glen Eden in Auckland, New Zealand.

[edit] Accomplishments

[edit] Discography

[edit] Filmography

  • Kaante (2002)
  • Trikaal (1985)
  • Sur - The Melody of Life (2002)
  • Love at Times Square (2003)
  • Kasak (2005)
  • Hamare Tumhare (1979)
  • Kitaab (1977)
  • Yehi Hai Zindagi (1997)

[edit] External links

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