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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.
One of the leading lights of the 1965-1990's Indian New Wave, Shabana Azmi (alongside the late Smita Patil) was one of the main female actors who dominated the films of the so-called "Parallel Cinema" in India in the 1970s and 1980s.
Shabana Azmi filmography. From her first film in 1974, Shabana Azmi has been part of over more than hundred projects. She has received many national awards.
National Award winner (5 times, no joke) Shabana Azmi is a firebrand actor, activist and intellectual. Twinkle Khanna interviews the national treasure to fin...
As part of our series presented by Google Arts and Culture, Anupama Chopra spoke to Shabana Azmi about the Golden Era of Hindi Cinema (1948-1965). Shabana Az...
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.
