Ali Abbas Zafar is an Indian film director and screenwriter. He achieved moderate success for his debut film, the romantic comedy Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (2011). He then went on direct the action drama Gunday (2014). He received widespread recognition for the sports drama Sultan (2016), which ranks among the highest-grossing Indian films. He then achieved bigger success directing the action thriller Tiger Zinda Hai (2017). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeetendra Kumar Makwana is employed full-time at a Call Center and works part-time teaching English. He is recruited by an attractive young woman, Pooja, to teach her Hinglish-speaking boss, Bhaiyaji, English. Jeetendra agrees to do so, falls in love with Pooja, and joins forces with her to steal a bag containing 25 Crore Rupees in cash. He will soon find out that Bhaiyaji is a hoodlum and extortionist known to the Police as Lakhan Singh.
Release Date2008-04-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count39
Sumair Azad, a dirty cop and his friend, Jaggi, steal Sikandar Chowdhary's cocaine bag. As a result, Sikandar kidnaps Sumair's son, but things take a turn when he loses the cocaine bag as he faces off Gurugram’s drug lords, a crime boss, murderous narcs and straight cops on one fateful night.
Release Date2023-06-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count33
Marigold Lexton, an American actress who gets stranded in Mumbai and lands a minor role in a Bollywood musical. She meets Prem, the film's choreographer, and undergoes a personal transformation as she experiences Bollywood firsthand.
Release Date2007-08-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count13
At the cusp of India's birth as an Independent nation, a family makes an arduous journey to freedom at a cost. A young boy Bharat, makes a promise to his Father that he will keep his family together no matter what.
Release Date2019-06-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count67
Four young friends decide to work together when one of them comes up with an innovative and lucrative business plan. But their lives begin to deteriorate when their personal issues surface.
Release Date2010-05-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count56
Two elite soldiers with troubled pasts are enlisted for a daring mission when a deadly masked madman threatens India's defenses.
Release Date2024-04-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count46
The ageing wrestler Sultan Ali Khan decides to try his luck on the mat again; to do this, he wants to represent his country at the Olympic Games, but first has to overcome personal issues.
Release Date2016-07-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count250
When a group of Indian and Pakistani nurses are held hostage in Iraq by a terrorist organization, a renowned Indian secret agent is drawn out of hiding to rescue them.
Release Date2017-12-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count164
Tandav is the coming together of different worlds under the gamut of politics. It is a dramatic take of the powerplay between people at the highest level where they get overthrown by others to secure their position. Young and upcoming student politicians are also featured and we get to see where their future is headed in this dark abyss of politics.
Release Date2021-01-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count9
Vote Count22
The lives of Calcutta's most powerful gangsters - Bikram and Bala, changes when Nandita enters it. Then a counter-force takes charge and a thriller unfolds.
Release Date2014-02-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count110
For Detective Sherdil, crime-solving is his superpower. But can his wit, intellect and street-smart instincts help him crack the murder mystery of the industrialist Pankaj Bhatti?
Release Date2025-06-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
It is an evocative and poignant composition consisting of three separate stories set in Mumbai, Kolkata and Kochi. Every story revolves around love, life and loss.
Release Date2007-10-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count1
A Mumbai man finds himself in an unpredictable situation when the prospective bride of his older brother is a woman he has history with.
Release Date2011-09-09
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count76
An aimless, jobless, irresponsible grown man joins the army and matures into a battlefield hero.
Release Date2004-06-18
DepartmentArt
JobAssistant Art Director
Vote Count113
DepartmentWriting
JobCreative Producer
Amid tension in 1980s India, three friends of different faiths unite in a noble yet dangerous effort to save hundreds in their town.
Release Date2022-09-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count12
The story is about two childhood sweethearts Pooja and Blackie who gets separated due to certain circumstances when they were kids. Pooja, who is now aprostitute, decides to escape the brothel on turning 18, with a bag full of stolen money. She bumps into Blackie who is now a very ‘chalu’ Bombay taxi driver. He agrees to ‘drive’ her to freedom, in exchange for a hefty amount.This leads to a series of chase and escape – with the goons on Pooja's trail and the cops on the goons’ trail.
Release Date2020-10-02
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count13
New York is a contemporary story of friendship set against the larger than life backdrop of a city often described as the centre of the world. Omar has gone abroad for the first time in his life and soon enough he begins to see and love America through the eyes of his American friends - Sam and Maya. It is the story of these three friends discovering a new world together.
Release Date2009-06-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count75
Ali Abbas Zafar's next directorial Action/Romance film with Ahaan Panday.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
