Lucky Ali

Lucky Ali
Lucky Ali at MTV Unplugged Season 2 launch
Background information
Birth name	Maqsood Mahmood Ali
Born	(1958-09-19) 19 September 1958 (age 58) Mumbai, India
Genres	Pop, world, folk
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, musician, composer, record producer, actor
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1962–present
Labels	Crescendo Music, Sony, Universal Music, Zee Records, T-Series, Lucky Ali Entertainment
Website	Official site

Lucky Ali (born 19 September 1958), born Maqsood Mahmood 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 Manekji Cooper (Kindergarten) (Juhu), Bombay Scottish School in Mumbai, Hampton Court in Mussoorie, St. George's College, Mussoorie 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.

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 parsi). 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 and 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.