18th January 1957 Nafisa Ali Was Born In Mumbai As Actress Model Politician
Nafisa Ali
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Nafisa Ali at the premiere of the film Lahore
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Born | Nafisa Ali 18 January 1957 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Other names | Nafisa Ali Sodhi |
Occupation | Actress, model, Politician |
Years active | 1979–present |
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Nafisa Ali (born 18 January 1957) is an actress and social activist fromIndia.
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[hide]Early life[edit]
Nafisa Ali was born to photographer Ahmed Ali and Philomena Torresan inKolkata, West Bengal. Ahmed was the son of S. Wajid Ali and brother ofZaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah. Her mother is now settled in Australia.[1]
She went to Sr. Cambridge from La Martiniere Calcutta.[2] She has also studied Vedanta taught by Swami Chinmayananda, who started the center Chinmaya Mission of World Understanding.
Her husband is the renowned polo player and Arjuna awardee, retired Col R.S. Sodhi. After marriage she chose to stop working and focus on her three children: daughters Armana, Pia and son Ajit.[1] After a break of 18 years she returned to the film industry.
Career[edit]
Nafisa Ali has accomplishments in several fields. She was the national swimming champion from 1972-1974, won theMiss India title in 1976 and was runner-up at the Miss International contest in 1977. Ali was also a jockey at the CalcuttaGymkhana in 1979.
Acting career[edit]
She has acted in several Bollywood films, the notable ones being Junoon (1979) with Shashi Kapoor, Major Saab withAmitabh Bachchan (1998), Bewafaa (2005), Life In A... Metro (2007) and Yamla Pagla Deewana (2010) with Dharmendra.
She has also acted in a Malayalam film called Big B (2007) with Mammootty, and is associated with Action India, an organisation working to spread AIDS awareness.
Political career[edit]
Nafisa Ali contested the 2004 Lok Sabha elections unsuccessfully from South Kolkata. On 5 April 2009, she contested the Lok Sabha election from Lucknow on the Samajwadi Party (SP) ticket after Sanjay Dutt's disqualification by the Supreme Court on the basis of a prior conviction. She then rejoined the Indian National Congress party in November 2009 and apologised to Sonia Gandhi for contesting on the SP ticket.[3]
Personal life[edit]
She is married to Colonel R. S. Sodhi, a polo player who won the Arjuna Award. He is now a real-estate developer.[2]
In September 2005, she was appointed the chairperson of the Children's Film Society of India (CFSI).
See also[edit]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Nafisa Ali at the Internet Movie Database
- An interview with Nafisa Ali
- A write-up on Nafisa Ali
- Nafeesa Ali's website
Preceded by Meenakshi Kurpad | Miss India 1976 | Succeeded by Nalini Vishwanathan |
Categories:
- La Martiniere Calcutta alumni
- Indian actor-politicians
- Femina Miss India winners
- Indian swimmers
- Living people
- 1957 births
- Indian women in politics
- Indian film actresses
- People from Mumbai
- Indian sportsperson-politicians
- Actresses in Hindi cinema
- Indian activists
- 20th-century Indian actresses
- 21st-century Indian actresses
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