Lucky Ali

LUCKY ALI (BORN 19 SEPTEMBER 1958), BORN MAQSOOD ALI, IS AN INDIAN SINGER-SONGWRITER, COMPOSER AND ACTOR.

ALI IS THE SECOND OF THE EIGHT CHILDREN OF THE POPULAR BOLLYWOOD ACTOR, MEHMOOD. HIS MOTHER MAHELAKA, WAS PART BENGALI AND PART PATHAN, THE SISTER OF A POPULAR INDIAN ACTRESS OF THE 1960S – MEENA KUMARI. THE BOLLYWOOD ACTRESS AND DANCER, MINOO MUMTAZ, IS HIS PATERNAL AUNT. HE ATTENDED ST. GEORGE'S COLLEGE, MUSSOORIE, CONVENT OF JESUS AND MARY, HAMPTON COURT, MUSSOORIE, MANEKJI COOPER (KINDERGARTEN) (JUHU), BOMBAY SCOTTISH SCHOOL IN MUMBAI, AND THE BISHOP COTTON BOYS' SCHOOL, BANGALORE.

ALI IS KNOWN TO BE A PRACTICING MUSLIM. ALI STATES HIS FAVOURITE IS THE QURAN BEING RECITED. HE SAYS THAT RELIGION IS BUT A PERSONAL REGIMEN THAT A SPIRITUAL SEEKER USES TO CONNECT TO HIS CREATOR.

THE 21ST ADDITIONAL CHIEF METROPOLITAN MAGISTRATE COURT HAS CONVICTED BOLLYWOOD SINGER LUCKY ALI IN A CHEQUE-BOUNCE CASE. THE COURT DIRECTED LUCKY TO PAY RS 92 LAKH TO THE COMPLAINANT, SYED RIZWAN, FAILING WHICH HE WOULD BE SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS IN JAIL.

HIS FIRST WIFE WAS MEAGHAN JANE MCCLEARY (A NEW ZEALANDER, NOW SEPARATED), WHO HAS ACTED IN THE VIDEO O SANAM FROM HIS FIRST ALBUM SUNOH. ALI HAS TWO CHILDREN FROM HIS FIRST WIFE – TA'AWWUZ AND TASMIA. HIS SECOND WIFE IS INAYA (ANAHITA-A PERSIAN) HE HAS TWO CHILDREN FROM HIS SECOND WIFE, SARA AND RAIYAN. HE WAS MARRIED A THIRD TIME IN 2010. HIS CURRENT WIFE IS A BRITISH MODEL AND FORMER BEAUTY QUEEN - KATE ELIZABETH HALLAM AND THE COUPLE HAVE A SON NAMED DANI MAQSOOD ALI.

LUCKY AND HIS FATHER SHARED A TEMPESTUOUS RELATIONSHIP. MEHMOOD WAS A VERY BUSY ACTOR IN 1960S AND 70S, AND REMAINED AWAY FROM HOME FOR HIS SHOOTS. ONCE, AROUND THE AGE OF FOUR WHEN LUCKY FIRST RETURNED FROM BOARDING SCHOOL, MEHMOOD AND THE ENTIRE FAMILY HAD COME TO RECEIVE LUCKY AFTER 10 MONTHS IN BOARDING SCHOOL, AT THE AIRPORT, LUCKY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE HIS FATHER, BUT ON SEEING HIM SAID, "HE'S THE FILM COMEDIAN MEHMOOD!" LUCKY LIVED AWAY FROM HIS FAMILY IN A BOARDING SCHOOL UP IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE HIMALAYAS IN MUSSOORIE. LUCKY'S TRYST WITH MARIJUANA LED MEHMOOD TO WRITE THE SCRIPT OF THE MOVIE DUSHMAN DUNIYA KA (ENEMY OF THE WORLD). THE MOVIE STARS ALI'S YOUNGEST BROTHER, 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 IS THEN KILLED BY HIS FATHER. LUCKY DIFFERED WITH HIS FATHER'S VISION AND DID NOT ACT IN THE MOVIE. "I FELT THE STORY LACKED HOPE," HE SAID. HOWEVER, HE SANG HIS FIRST SONG FOR THE FILM.

BEST KNOWN FOR HIS MUSIC, SINGING AND ACTING, ALI HAS ALSO BRED HORSES, WORKED ON AN OIL RIG OFF THE COAST OF PONDICHERRY IN SOUTH INDIA, CLEANED AND SOLD CARPETS AND IS A FARMER WITH A STRONG OPINION ON ORGANIC METHODS IN FARMING.

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