Ustad Mazhar Ali Khan

Ustad Mazhar Ali Khan Ali Khan was a renowned actor of Hindi Cinema. He >> Read More... is associated with North Indian style of Indian classical and semi-classical music since his early days. He has borrowed a musical legacy of his generation as his grandfather, father and uncle were all Indian classical singers and legendary singers of Ghazals and Bhajans, folk or semi-classical or light classical styles for decades.

Singer Ustad Mazhar Ali Khan found inspiration from his grandfather, Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, the doyen of Hindustani classical music. Ustad Mazhar Ali Khan and his brother Ustad Jawaad Ali Khan were top grade artists in Doordarshan and All India Radio.

They also had performed in Canada, Europe, and other countries too. He has an insatiable thirst for Indian classical music and has practiced through different genres of music in his career. Both the grandsons of Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan had been instrumental in forming an institution in the name of his grandfather later on.

They established ’Bade Ghulam Ali Khan music Foundation of India’ which helps to teach the art and technique of singing of Hindustani classical music. For Ustad Mazhar Ali Khan, music has always meant the world to him. As a singer, he has been singing all by himself supported by his brother Ustad Jawaad Ali Khan in many concerts throughout the world.

He enjoys combining various ragas and vocal tones that hold intensity with classical and semi-classical music. Ustad Mazhar Ali Khan merges his vocal from different genres, adding touches to Hindustani classical music, and creating his very own true feeling. 

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Mazhar Kamran Mazhar Kamran is an Indian cinematographer, docume >> Read More... is an Indian cinematographer, documentary and movie director. He is the son of a spiritually-inclined mother and a scientist father. He spent his childhood in metropolitan cities of India. He completed his schooling at St Xavier's High School, a Jesuit establishment housed in a nineteenth-century neo-gothic working in Fort of Bombay. He got graduated from the IIT in electrical engineering in Madras. There, he developed a growing interest in the silver screen. After his graduation, he went ahead to consider movie making at the Pune’s FTII.

Mazhar began as a producer with a little team of three concentrating on television serial science name Turning Point Turning point is a Hindi TV programme telecasted o >> Read More... and cultural name Surabhi and for various projects on TV. His work enabled him to travel generally, and he portrays these years as his complete "Discovery of India" travel. He came back to Mumbai to function as a cinematographer for the feature movie " Satya Click to look into! >> Read More... " which became plainly a cult classic of Indian silver screen. From there on, he shot a few more standard Bollywood films that kept on making a check, including "Kaun" and "Jhankaar Beats." He made a debut in direction with " Mohandas Bio coming soon... >> Read More... ," a full-length account movie in light of an abstract novella in 2009. The film was critically recognized and got nominated for a few national and worldwide film celebration grants including the Grand Prix at the Fribourg International Film Festival. It was additionally included in the New Directors segment of the San Francisco International Film Festival and earned the Special Jury Prize in Austria at the International Film Festival of Innsbruck.

Mazhar has likewise produced and directed a few documentaries. Two of his narrative movies, on the life and work of broadly interpreted famous Urdu creators who have won India's most respected honours for writing Naiyer Masud and Qurratulain Hyder Qurratulain Hyder was an Indian Urdu writer, novel >> Read More... by the Sahitya Academy. He likewise made an honour winning film on the place where he grew up Lucknow for the Department of Tourism. UNCLE is his latest documentary. He has done television advertisements name "Shiksha" movie coordinated for P&G India and including celebrated Hindi motion picture on-screen character Anupam Kher Anupam Kher is a very popular actor, director, and >> Read More... . The Public Service crusade kept running for more than two years on TV and won the most noteworthy internal honour at Procter and Gamble Worldwide. Mazhar Kamran directed workshops at a few foundations.

He has given guest lectures at the Film and Media Arts Institute name Whistling Woods International Institute in Mumbai. He is an employee at IIT Bombay in IDC School of Design. He was the keynote speaker at a national course on "Silver screen and Literature" by Pune University in 2015. He was invited on a Culture and Arts policy for the Round Table Meeting by Observer Research Foundation Mumbai for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region in 2014. He was a jury member in National Students Films Awards at FTII Pune in 2015.

Khan Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)