Alauddin Ali

Alauddin Ali (24 December 1952 – 9 August 2020) was a Bangladeshi music composer. He won the Best Music Composer award for the film Laal Doriya and the Best Lyrics award for Premik (1985). His father was Ustad Jadab Ali and his mother's name was Johra Khatun.

Ali's father was a staff artiste at the Dhaka radio station. His uncle, Sadek Ali, and cousins Dhir Ali Miah, Mansur Ali, Yunus Ali and Momotaz Uddin, were music directors and composers there during the 1960s. His first cousin-once removed Ali Akbar Rupu, son of his cousin Mansur Ali, was also a renowned music director of Bangladesh.

At the age of one year and six months, Alauddin Ali moved with his family to AGB Colony, Motijheel, Dhaka. This talented artist grew up in that colony with three brothers and two sisters. His first hand in music was with his younger uncle Sadek Ali. Later in 1986 he entered the film world as a musician. He started as an associate of Shaheed Altaf Mahmud and later worked with renowned composer Anwar Pervez for a long time. By 1967–68, besides practicing violin, he learnt the piano under music director Karim Shahabuddin. Ali's first film as a music director was Shondhikkhon (1975).

During his career he recorded several songs in Dhaka, Kolkata, Mumbai, Lahore and Karachi. He worked for His Master's Voice in India in the 80's. The name of his music studio was Sruti.

Personal life Ali was married three times. With Monowara Begum, he has three children - Afrin Ali, Ajmeri Ali Minu and Showkat Ali Rana. With Nazrul Sangeet singer Salma Sultana (d. 2016), he has a daughter Alif Alauddin, who is also a singer and media personality like her parents.

Until his death, Ali had lived in Banasree, Dhaka with his wife Farzana Ali Mimi, a singer and youngest daughter, Adrita Alauddin Rajkonna.

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Notable songs The number of songs composed by him is more than 5 thousand. In his career of more than four decades, he directed for playback songs of an average of 10 films every year. Some of the notable songs of Alauddin Ali are:

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Death Ali had been suffering from pneumonia and blood infection for a long time. Alauddin Ali was first taken to Bangkok on 3 July 2015. After examination there, it was found that he had a tumor in his lung. Then he underwent treatment for cancer along with other physical problems.