Prince Azmet Jah

Nawab Walashan Mir Azmet Ali Khan Siddiqi Bayafandi Bahadur, commonly known as Prince Azmet Jah (born 1962), is a British professional photographer and a descendant of the Asif Jahi dynasty of Hyderabad and the Imperial House of Osman.

Prince Azmet Jah
Heir apparent to the Throne of the Nizam of Hyderabad (titular)
Reign1971–present
NizamMukarram Jah
Born1962 (age 59–60)
London, England
HouseHouse of Asaf Jah
FatherPrince Mukarram Jah
MotherPrincess Esra Birgin

Early life

Azmet Jah was born in London, England to Prince Mukarram Jah, the titular Nizam of Hyderabad and Princess Esra. He has a degree in cinematography.[1]

Career

Azmet Jah has worked on movies with Steven Spielberg and Richard Attenborough.[2] He has wielded the camera for Hollywood films, such as Basic Instinct and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.[3]

In 2011, he stated that he was working on two films, one on Mustafa Kemal Ataturk(the first President of Turkey) and another one on his great grandfather, Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, the Seventh Nizam of Hyderabad Deccan.[3]

Personal life

In May 1994, he married Princess Begum Sahiba Zainab Naz Jah (née Zeynep Naz Guvendiren) in Kensington, London, and has a son Murad Jah, who currently living in England.[1]

See also

References
  1. The Hindu: Andhra Pradesh – Asaf Jahi scion to make documentary on 7th Nizam
  2. The Hindu: `I belong to a lot of countries' – H.E.H. Prince Mukarram Jah and Princes Azam Jah and Azmet Jah in an exclusive tete-e-tete with Syeda Farida
  3. "Return of the Royals". Telegraph India. 22 February 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2020.



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