Rajah Muzaffar Ali, born (21 October 1944, Lucknow) is an Indian filmmaker, a fashion designer, a poet, an artist, a music-lover, a revivalist, and a social worker. He belongs to a royal Muslim Rajput family of Kotwara.

Muzaffar Ali attended the La Martiniere college. His father was the Raja of Kotwara, an estate in Gola Gokarannath Sub division of the district Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh and his mother was from the noble family of Sheikhupur, Badaun. Muzaffar Ali had a successful career as a film maker. His Vinod Khanna-Dimple Kapadia starrer Zooni is still unreleased. Some of his famous works include Umrao Jaan, Gaman etc.

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