Murtz

Murtaza Ali, better known as Murtz, is a British Asian television and radio presenter.

After a long-running television series Mutz Cutz with the UK's largest Indian Satellite channel Zee TV, Murtz became a recognised personality establishing himself with a massive cult following to thousands of British Asian families across the UK and Europe. As of 2009 he is married to British Asian model and television presenter Gulzaeb Beg Ali.

Born and brought up in Harrow, Murtz started out pursuing an interest in dancing whilst studying Business Management at the University of Westminster in 1999. He performed to audiences of over 10,000 people with the some of top Bollywood choreographers and actors including Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Karishma Kapoor, Mahima Choudry, Sunil Shetty and Gulshan Grover to mention a few. At the same time he was asked to model for many of the large UK Asian fashion houses and was also featured in several print advertising campaigns for mainstream clients including British Telecom and a television commercial for Chamption Atta.

In 2000 Murtz moved on from dancing to presenting events as a host/compere for University of London Asian Society shows. In the same year he was head-hunted by television networks and at the age of 20 was signed-up as the newest resident presenter or VJ for Zee TV with his own TV show.

Sorted was Murtz's first on show with Zee and radically different to other conventional shows targeting British Asian television audiences. In every weekly edition of Sorted, Murtz would take his viewers on a trip into the crazy Asian party scene in London and across the UK, speaking to revellers getting their thoughts on a host of subjects and topics - all this as they partied on the dance floor, whilst trying to hide away from the camera, (so their folks at home wouldn’t find out!).

The show was hugely successful establishing Murtz as a broadcaster, journalist and creative director. Popularity of ‘Sorted’ even caught the attention of mainstream media with Murtz being featured in the Channel 4 documentary Culture Clash. He was interviewed by the late veteran broadcaster Sir Charles Wheeler to get his insight on the impact of 9/11 on British Muslims.

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