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Nafisa Ali

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Nafisa Ali
  • Date of Birth:
    January 18, 1957
  • Place of Birth:
    Mumbai, India
  • Height:
    5'6"
  • Sex:
    Female
  • Hair Color:
    Grey
  • Eye Color:
    Brown
  • Nationality:
    Indian
  • Education:
    Swami Chinmayananda

     

Family

Nafisa Ali
  • Father:
    Ahmed Ali
  • Uncle:
    Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah.
  • Spouse:
    Col "Pickles" Sodhi

Career

Nafisa Ali

Trivia

Nafisa Ali
  • Nafisa Ali has accomplishments in several fields.
  • Nafisa Ali was the national swimming champion from 1972-1974.
  • Nafisa Ali won the Miss India title in 1976 and was runner-up at the Miss International contest in 1977.
  • Ali was a jockey at the Calcutta Gymkhana in 1979. She has acted in several Bollywood films, the notable ones being "Junoon"(1979) with Shashi Kapoor and "Major Saab" with Amitabh Bachchan (1998), "Bewafaa" (2005) and the most recent being "Life In A... Metro" (2007) and a Malayalam film called "Big B" (2007) with Mammootty.
  • Nafisa Ali is associated with Action India, an organisation working to spread AIDS awareness.
  • Nafisa Ali contested the 2004 Lok Sabha elections unsuccessfully from South Kolkata.
  • In September 2005, she was appointed the chairperson of the Children's Film Society of India (CFSI).
  • Nafisa Ali comes from a very diverse theistic background and environment; her mother was a Roman Catholic while her father was Muslim, she married a Sikh man, Col "Pickles" Sodhi .

Filmography

Nafisa Ali

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