Young gun Ali Shah to make Bollywood debut in Tigmanshu Dhulia’s YAARA

July 28, 2020 221 Views No Comment

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Legendary actor Naseeruddin Shah‘s nephew, Major Mohommed Ali Shah, a Motivational Speaker/ Defence and Strategic Expert on TV Panels in real life, will be seen portraying the role of a “Sutradhar” in National award winning film maker Tigmanshu Dhulia’s upcoming film “YAARA“. This film stars Vidyut Jamwal, Shruti Hasan, Amit Sadh, Vijay Verma, Kenny Basumatary and Major Mohommed Ali Shah in key roles. The film YAARA releases on 30th July on Zee 5!

Ali Shah had earlier appeared in Vishal Bhardwaj’s film “HAIDER” which won 5 National Awards. The soon to be released movie shows the transformation of Ali, into the character of Jasjit Singh, a Sikh gentleman. The army veteran turned IIM Graduate turned CEO devoted more than two and a half years of his life completely towards intense preparation for this role and totally immersed himself into the character.

He calls his role in the film his dream role since this role gives him a chance to display his talent as an actor perfectly! He plays this Sikh police officer who ages over two decades in the film. From a young new IPS officer to ageing on towards retirement as the Jt. Director CBI.

When he was preparing for this meaty role in the film “Yaara”, he grew his hair for real over a long time and learnt to tie a turban himself, gave up smoking completely, read the Shri Gurugranth Sahab Ji, spent a month in the Golden Temple doing volunteer seva.

Major Mohommed Ali has done Theatre with Thespians such as Tom Alter and Naseer Uddin Shah ( who incidentally is his father’s younger brother). His father has served as the Deputy Chief of The Army Staff and also is the former Vice Chancellor of The Aligarh Muslim University.

Ali Shah has acted in FTII alumnus Shriram Raghavan’s “Agent Vinod”, and in Vishal Bhardwaj’s “Haider” which won 5 National awards apart from several other prestigious film awards. He has also acted in acclaimed filmmaker Jahnu Baruah’s “Broken window” produced by Priyanka Chopra.

Major Ali joined the Short Service Commission in the Army to train as a “Commando”. Among other duties performed, he served with the Assam Rifles in the North East. He served as ADC to GOC 3 Corps in the North East and also speaks fluent Nagamese!