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Gaman

Director: Muzaffar Ali
Starring: Farooq Sheikh, Jalal Agha, Nana Patekar, Satish Shah, Smita Patil
Music Director: Jaidev
Singers: Suresh Wadkar

He`s one of those who needn`t lock the doors of his house while he`s away. What can be burgled anyway? The wealth of talent is all within him! Muzaffar Ali is a film director, artist, fashion designer, Sufi follower and politician all rolled in one... Muzaffar Ali was born in `Kotwara`, a village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Young Ali had only a paint brush for company... and an ambition to be an artist, but his single-room house couldn`t accomodate his canvas! Wih the help of a friend, Ali managed to find a place where he could fulfil his artistic desires and in 1968, held his first painting exhibition there. It all looked so good... except for the fact that only one painting was sold! The others had to be gifted away. Not losing heart, Ali then began working with Clarion McCann Advertising Services in Calcutta, the same company in which Satyajit Ray, the famous film director used to work as an Art Director. While Ali joined, Mr. Ray had become the Vice Chairman. Subhas Makhhopadhyay, the famous poet and close friend of Ali`s introduced him to several artists from Calcutta, and it was here that his mind opened to the idea of using film as a medium of social comment and artistic expression. After Living in Delhi for a short while, Ali moved to Bombay, the film city of India. there he worked with Air India in the publicity department. He was moved by the plight of U.P. migrants and the degradation their life and culture back in Uttar Pradesh. Influenced by all this, he made the film `Gaman`(the migration). The film got many awards including the special Jury award at the 7th International Film festival in New Delhi. The film was also awarded the `Silver Peacock` at the 29th National Film festival for `Best Music` and `Best female Playback Singer`, and turne out to be one of the most sensitive films on the problem of migration from village to cities. The film also received the Film fare Award for `Best Director`, besides representing India at the `Manheim Film Week` in Germany. `Gaman` was followed by `Umrao Jaan` in 1981, in which he related the story of a mid-19th century courtesan of Lucknow, based on the novel written by the famous writer Mirza Mohammed Hadi Ruswa. The film was appreciated both in India as well as abroad. Muzaffar Ali resigned from Air India in the same year in order to devote all his time to films, art... and music! The Ghazals that Ali had used in `Gaman` helped him identify with the human anguish of helplessness and separation, inspiring him to launch his own album called `Jaam-e-Ishq` under the label of `Kotwara Studios`. The album was the soundtrack of a music ballet based on the poem of the thirteenth century Sufi poet, Saint Rumi.