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Shabana Azmi (born 18 September 1950) is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. Her career in the Hindi film industry has spanned over 160 films, mostly within independent and neorealist parallel cinema, though her work extended to mainstream films as well as a number of international projects.
She acted in more than 100 films and has won 5 National Award and 4 Filmfare Award for Best Actress. Bollywood actresses Tabu and Farah Naaz are her nieces. She has been an pro-active socialist and supported slum dwellers, displaced Kashmiri Pandit migrants and victims of the earthquake at Latur, Maharashtra.
May 16, 2024 08:02 AM IST. Celebrating actor Shabana Azmi's 50 years in cinema, New York Indian Film Festival will host a special event that includes the screening of her 1996 film Fire.
Born to noted Urdu progressive poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and theatre actress Shaukat Azmi, Shabana has acted in films by virtually all of India's most famous art-house directors including Shyam Benegal, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Aparna Sen and others, as well as in commercial and middle-of-the-road Hindi films, where she has essayed several ...
Sep 18, 2021 · Shabana Azmi: The most versatile actor in Hindi film industry who should be celebrated even more On Shabana Azmi's 71st birthday, here's revisiting her unique choices which balanced mainstream, as well as indie cinema perfectly.
From her first film in 1974, Shabana Azmi has been part of over more than hundred projects. She has received many national awards.
Born to noted Urdu progressive poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and theatre actress Shaukat Azmi, Shabana has acted in films by virtually all of India's most famous art-house directors including Shyam Benegal, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Aparna Sen and others, as well as in commercial and middle-of-the-road Hindi films, where she has essayed several ...
Sep 18, 2023 · The actor was Shabana Azmi, who bursted on screen in Shyam Benegal’s feature film debut, Ankur (1974). The scintillating performance won her a National Award for Best Actress, and the film became the harbinger of an era in Indian cinema that ran “parallel” to the mainstream Hindi film industry.
Sep 4, 2023 · “This is the greatest love story I’ve ever seen or heard,” Shaukat and Kaifi’s daughter and one of Bollywood’s most formidable actors, Shabana Azmi, says, during a visit to the city to perform Kaifi aur Main, an IPTA production directed by Ramesh Talwar, at the recently concluded edition of the Delhi Theatre Festival.
May 31, 2011 · For more than 40 years, Indian actress, activist and sometime politician Shabana Azmi has paved the way for independent, socially conscious Indian cinema.
