Farah Sultan Ahmed

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Farah Sultan Ahmed
Born (1968-10-22) 22 October 1968 (age 55)
NationalityIndian
EducationMumbai University
OccupationProducer
Years active2015 - Present
Spouse
(m. 1987; died 2002)
ChildrenAli Abbas Sultan Ahmed
Ali Akbar Sultan Ahmed
ParentMustafa Musa

Farah Sultan Ahmed is a Bollywood film producer. She started her career by assisting her partner producer/director Sultan Ahmed from 1987 until his death in 2002.[1]

Career[edit]

Mrs. Sultan controlled all the pre-production, outlays, shooting schedule and post production for the movie Daata starring Mithun Chakraborty and Padmini Kolhapure and later the film Jai Vikraanta starring Sanjay Dutt, Zeba Bakhtiar and Amrish Puri. She directed a music album Sitaara in 2007. She was elected as the EC Member of IMPPA (Indian Motion Pictures Producers' Association) from 2002- 2008. She was a treasurer and convenor and handled many sensitive issues of the industry in IMPPA.[2]

In 2011 she started ThinkBig Entertainment, her sister company of Sultan Production and has executed many events under the banner, and also laid the foundation of ThinkBig Entertainment in Dubai.[3]

In 2016, she started to work on a sequel to Mughal-e-Azam, apparently using the script written by her husband.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Pooja bajaj. "जब अमीन सयानी ने कहा, अली के मुक्कों में पंच है तो रेखा की आंखों में पंच है". Aaj Tak.
  2. ^ Kunal M Shah. "Rising from the ashes". Mid-day.
  3. ^ "Farah Sultan, Shalini Thackeray team-up for cine workers welfare". Zee News.
  4. ^ Diana Lydia (9 May 2016). "Mughal-E-Azam sequel to be produced by Farah Sultan Ahmed". Urban Asian. Retrieved 18 April 2017.