Shabana Azmi Biography
Shabana Azmi is a famous Indian film actress married to Javed Akhtar. She is a social activist and has also recieved five National Film Awards for Best Actress.
Basics
Shabana was born on the 18th September 1950 in New Delhi. Her father Kaifi Azmi was a poet, and mother Shaukat is a stage actress. She did her graduation from St. Xavier’s College and received a degree in Psychology. She then took up a course in acting at Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. She decided to join this institute as she was very influenced after watching Jaya Bhaduri in Suman.
Since childhood Shabana respected social and cultural values and was very passionate about intellectual growth.
Azmi was linked to director Shekhar Kapur but then married lyricist Javed Akhtar on 9 December 1984. Her nieces are actress Farah and Tabu.
Work
Shabana Azmi graduated in 1979 and then she signed movies like Faasla by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas' and also Parinay by Kanti Lal Rathod but her first release was Shyam Benegal's Ankur. This film brought her a National Film Award for Best Actress. She also recieved awards for her films Arth, Khandhar and Paar(1983 to 1985) and in 1999 for her performance in Godmother.
Shabana has always showed the viewers something different in all her movies. She had put on weight and chewed beetel nuts for her film Mandi and Jamini in Khandhar and was seen as a normal house wife in Masoom. She also acted in Deepa Mehta's Fire. There was a lot of controversy as the movie talked about Lesbianism which was not acceptable by the Indian Authorities. But at 32nd Chicago Film Festival she recieved the Silver Hugo Award for Best Actress and Jury Award for Best Actress at Outfest, Los Angeles.
She has done more than 100 Hindi movies and is also seen in a lot of foreign films like Nicholas Klotz’s Bengali Night, Channel 4’s Immaculate Conception, Blake Edwards' Son of the Pink Panther, Roland Joffe’s City of Joy and Ismail Merchant’s In Custody. Some of her films got noticed by Norwegian Film Institute, Smithsonian Institution, and also American Film Institute.
Some of the most famous films include Saeed Mirza’s Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai, Sai Paranjpye’s Sparsh, Shyam Benegal's Nishant (1975), Junoon (1978), Susman (1986), Antarnaad (1992), Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khiladi, Mrinal Sen’s Khandhar, Genesis, Ek Din Achanak, Sati, Disha, Gautam Ghose’s Paar and Aparna Sen’s Picnic. She also took part in a small screen opera, Anupama.
Shabana is also a social activist and has fought against injustice and AIDS.
Shabana Azmi is a famous Indian film actress married to Javed Akhtar. She is a social activist and has also recieved five National Film Awards for Best Actress.
Basics
Shabana was born on the 18th September 1950 in New Delhi. Her father Kaifi Azmi was a poet, and mother Shaukat is a stage actress. She did her graduation from St. Xavier’s College and received a degree in Psychology. She then took up a course in acting at Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. She decided to join this institute as she was very influenced after watching Jaya Bhaduri in Suman.
Since childhood Shabana respected social and cultural values and was very passionate about intellectual growth.
Azmi was linked to director Shekhar Kapur but then married lyricist Javed Akhtar on 9 December 1984. Her nieces are actress Farah and Tabu.
Work
Shabana Azmi graduated in 1979 and then she signed movies like Faasla by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas' and also Parinay by Kanti Lal Rathod but her first release was Shyam Benegal's Ankur. This film brought her a National Film Award for Best Actress. She also recieved awards for her films Arth, Khandhar and Paar(1983 to 1985) and in 1999 for her performance in Godmother.
Shabana has always showed the viewers something different in all her movies. She had put on weight and chewed beetel nuts for her film Mandi and Jamini in Khandhar and was seen as a normal house wife in Masoom. She also acted in Deepa Mehta's Fire. There was a lot of controversy as the movie talked about Lesbianism which was not acceptable by the Indian Authorities. But at 32nd Chicago Film Festival she recieved the Silver Hugo Award for Best Actress and Jury Award for Best Actress at Outfest, Los Angeles.
She has done more than 100 Hindi movies and is also seen in a lot of foreign films like Nicholas Klotz’s Bengali Night, Channel 4’s Immaculate Conception, Blake Edwards' Son of the Pink Panther, Roland Joffe’s City of Joy and Ismail Merchant’s In Custody. Some of her films got noticed by Norwegian Film Institute, Smithsonian Institution, and also American Film Institute.
Some of the most famous films include Saeed Mirza’s Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai, Sai Paranjpye’s Sparsh, Shyam Benegal's Nishant (1975), Junoon (1978), Susman (1986), Antarnaad (1992), Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khiladi, Mrinal Sen’s Khandhar, Genesis, Ek Din Achanak, Sati, Disha, Gautam Ghose’s Paar and Aparna Sen’s Picnic. She also took part in a small screen opera, Anupama.
Shabana is also a social activist and has fought against injustice and AIDS.
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