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  • Tehzeeb
  • Tehzeeb review by A customer from Reading, England
    Rated - 2.0 stars Good idea / story......lost it midway 30 September 2004
    ...to at any rate) a strained mother-daughter relationship. Considering it had Shabana Azmi plus was written and directed by Khalid Mohammed, I was curious to see the trea...   Read customer review
  • Umrao Jaan
  • Umrao Jaan review by A customer from Manchester
    Rated - 3.0 stars Good, but not great. 21 March 2007
    ...s not far behind. Abhishek Bachchan was good, but looked out of place at times. Shabana Azmi was excellent as the ruthless brothel madame who is forced to hide her motherly...   Read customer review
  • It's a Wonderful Afterlife
  • It's a Wonderful Afterlife review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor
    Rated - 5.0 stars superb comedy film........... 29 April 2010
    ...de and Prejudice and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. It stars Goldy Notay, Shabana Azmi, Shaheen Khan, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Sally Hawkins. The film depicts life amo...   Read customer review

Shabana Azmi - filmography


  • Sorry Bhai! on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Shabana Azmi,  Boman Irani,  Sharman Joshi
    Director: Onir
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When Harsh Mathur (Sanjay Suri) decides on the spur of the moment to marry Aaliyah (Chitrangada Singh) in a whirlwind ceremony in Mauritius, he invites his younger brother Siddarth (Sharman Joshi) and his disapproving parents (Shabana Azmi and Boman Irani) to the wedding. But when circumstances ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 10 members
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  • Loins of Punjab Presents (2007)
    Starring: Shabana Azmi,  Ishitta Sharma,  Michael Raimondi
    Director: Manish Acharya
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A ruthless philanthropist. A bhangra rapper. An over-protected prodigy. A reckless actress. A lovelorn businessman. An entrepreneurial yogi. And a Loin King. Enter a roller-coaster world of seven strangers whose lives collide during a singing contest in a small New Jersey town.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2 members
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  • Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Shabana Azmi,  Boman Irani,  Kay Kay Menon
    Director: Reema Kagti
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. is a package honeymoon to Goa. Cheap and cheerful, it is an option for a lot of middle class dreamers on the brink of their new life. Six such couples, a guide, a driver and a handyman board a minibus from Bombay to Goa. The journey humorously unfold seven different ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 979 members
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  • Umrao Jaan on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Aishwarya Rai,  Abhishek Bachchan,  Shabana Azmi
    Director: J P Dutta
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The real wealth of people is their culture and literary work. Which reflects the times, the place and the people. One such work was Mirza Hadi Ruswa's Umrao Jaan Ada. Ruswa was a teacher in mathematics, science, philosophy & Persian. Ruswa was born in 1857 in Licknow and his parents died when he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 586 members
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  • 15 Park Avenue on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Shabana Azmi,  Konkona Sen Sharma,  Waheeda Rehman
    Director: Aparna Sen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The narrative pivots around the relationship of two sisters, older sister Anjali (Shabana Azmi) is a successful professor with a powerful personality. She is the anchoring rock for her family and carer for her sister Meethi whose progression into schizophrenia has been speeded up by traumatic ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 378 members
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  • Waterbourne (2005)
    Starring: Jon Gries,  Jenna Dewan,  Jake Muxworthy
    Director: Ben Rekhi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A biological act of terror has been unleashed upon Los Angeles, and as the denizens of the West Coast metropolis are bombarded with news stories documenting the contamination of the city's water supply, turmoil grips the panic-stricken streets in director Ben Rekhi's dark speculative drama. With ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Morning Raga (2004)
    Starring: Shabana Azmi,  Perizaad Zorabian,  Prakesh Rao
    Director: Mahesh Dattani
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Swarnalatha (Azmi) is a talented Carnatic vocalist whose dreams of singing in the city crash along with the bus on which she is riding from her little South Indian village to the city. The accident on the bridge linking the village to the city becomes the metophorical Lakshman-rekha Swarnalatha ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 33% from 13 members
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  • Tehzeeb on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Arjun Rampal,  Rishi Kapoor,  Diya Mirza
    Director: Khalid Mohammad
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The story revolves around Rukhsana, a well-known playback singer, and her daughter Tehzeeb, who since childhood has nursed a grudge against her mother. Tehzeeb suspects that her mother, a flamboyant personality – who has always been gossiped about in the magazines and newspapers – had something to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 214 members
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  • Makdee (2002)
    Starring: Shabana Azmi,  Makrand Deshpande,  Shweta Prasad
    Director: Vishal Bharadwaj
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Life in Chunni's village is all peace and quiet, and great fun. She fools the villagers with her impersonation of her twin sister, Munni, she has a great friend in Muggale Azam, who does her homework, and she also has all the opportunity to vex her masterji (school teacher), Kallu (the village ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 96 members
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  • Hari-Bhari (2000)
    Starring: Shabana Azmi,  Nandita Das,  Rajit Kapoor
    Director: Shyam Benegal
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The story of four women who all live in the same house in Uttar Pradesh. Grandmother, Hasina, her two daughters-in-law Najiam and Afsana and her granddaughter Salma.
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 28 members
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  • Fire (1996)
    Starring: Shabana Azmi,  Nandita Das,  Kulbhushan Kharbanda
    Director: Deepa Mehta
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A powerful drama focusing on one woman's life in a loveless marriage who becomes involved with a beautiful woman. Fire stirred controversy in India when it was first screened.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,704 members
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  • Main Azaad Hoon on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Shabana Azmi,  Amitabh Bachchan
    Director: Tinnu Anand
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    If journalist Subhashni Saigal (Shabana Azmi) is going to keep her job, she'll have to come up with a big story that satisfies her power-hungry boss. When she dreams up a martyr named Azaad, she unwittingly creates a media sensation and is forced to recruit a homeless man (Amitabh Bachchan) to pose ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 29 members
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  • Rakhwala on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Asrani,  Shabana Azmi,  Beena Banerjee
    Director: K. Muralimohana Rao
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A little girl comes from her village to Bombay to find her father. She meets Vikram a kind hearted person who could help her. But Vikram is helpless as she doesn't know her father's name nor has his photograph.
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 3 members
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  • The Bengali Night (1988)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Shabana Azmi,  Supriya Pathak
    Director: Nicolas Klotz
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Allan (Hugh Grant) is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen (Soumitra Chatterjee) which includes his wife, Indira (Shabana Azmi) and daughter Gayatri (Supriya Pathak). Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 3 members
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  • Madame Sousatzka (1988)
    Starring: Shirley MacLaine,  Peggy Ashcroft,  Navin Chowdry
    Director: John Schlesinger
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A Russian/American piano tutor living in London encounters a young Indian boy who seems to have an extraordinary musical gift, which she realises can be moulded into genius. Here is her chance to create a world-acclaimed maestro.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 6 members
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  • Khamosh (1985)
    Starring: Shabana Azmi,  Amol Palekar,  Sudhir Mishra
    Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A Bollywood unit decides to travel to scenic Pahalgam in Maharashtra to complete an yet untitled movie. The stars are Naseerudin Shah, Amol Palekar, Sushma Seth, Shabana Azmi, and Sadashiv Amrapurkar. From the onset itself it is quite clear that the stars do not get along with each other, although ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 25% from 6 members
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  • Masoom (1983)
    Starring: Naseeruddin Shah,  Pran Talwar,  Saeed Jaffery
    Director: Shekhar Kapur
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    D K Malhotra (Naseeruddin Shah), an architect, has a happy married life with his wife Indu (Shabana Azmi) and two daughters. A bombshell drops on him when he discovers that he has a child from an extra-marital affair. He brings home his son (Jugal Hansraj) and confesses to Indu that he is his own ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 10 members
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  • Mandi on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Smita Patil,  Shabana Azmi,  Amrish Puri
    Director: Shyam Benegal,  Shyam BenegalShyam Benegal
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The story of a whore house in a remote town which becomes the bone of contention between political and business interests. Shyam Benegal has been considered as the leading film maker of the country ever since his first feature film, ANKUR. His films have been seen and acclaimed widely not only in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 76 members
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  • Arth on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Shabana Azmi,  Smita Patil,  Khulbushan Kharbanda
    Director: Mahesh Bhatt
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Mrs Pooja Malhotra an orphan by birth is facing a crises. Her husband Inder Malhotra, an advertising film executive has thrown away his rather secure job. They have to vacate the companys flat. Pooja seems to have come to the end of her tether. She accuses Inder for failing her in her only dream of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 133 members
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  • Ashanti (1982)
    Starring: Mithun Chakrabort,  Zeenat Aman,  Shabana Azmi
    Director: Umesh Mehra
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The head of a hen jerks - frightened, its head, anoited with the sacraficial colors. Suddenly a hand pulls it - a knife flashes and the hand of a preist puts the cerimonial tilak of blood on the forhead of Maharaja Bhisham Bahadur Singh. The world may have forgotton him, but he has not forgotten ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 13 members
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  • Thodisi Bewafaii on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Rajesh Khanna,  Rajesh khanna,  Shabana Azmi
    Director: Esmayeel Shroff
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A young businessman is forced to start his life again when his father dies and he loses his house and business. Finding it all too much his wife and son move out of the house that they share with his mother and two sisters. Ten years later the father and son are reunited but can the parents be ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 37 members
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  • Lahu Ke Do Rang on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Vinod Khanna,  Danny Denzongpa,  Shabana Azmi
    Director: Mahesh Bhatt
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Shamshir Singh who has deserted the British Army and joinded Azad Hind Fouj, is given shelter from the pursuing Britishers in Hong Kong by Suzy, a local girl, with whom he falls in love. After six months he has to return to india and when he finds Suzy pregnant he marries her, promising to come ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 41% from 16 members
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  • Junoon (1979)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Jennifer Kendal,  Shabana Azmi
    Director: Shyam Benegal
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    1857: the first shot is fired in the Indian mutiny against British colonisation. The bloody events which follow provide the dramatically atmospheric for this star-crossed lovers story in which Muslim rebel Javed Khan (Shashi Kapoor) develops a passionate, almost obsessive, love for Ruth (Nafisa Ali)..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 68 members
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  • Shaque on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Vinod Khanna,  Utpal Dutt,  Shabana Azmi
    Director: Aruna Vikas
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A happy family if there was one. Vinod (Vinod Khanna) a respected business man, his wife Meena (Shabana Azmi), who dotes on him, and their boisterous son whom they both adore. Their well being is shattered by the arrival of a letter. It is from Mansing, en ex employee, alleging that he saw Vinod ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 40 members
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  • Khoon Ki Pukaar on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Vinod Khanna,  Shabana Azmi,  Aruna Irani
    Director: Ramesh Ahuja
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After the murder of his wife, and his son's kidnapping, Dr. Vidya Bhushan decides to devote the rest of his life as a Poojary, living on the premises of a princely-donated temple, hoping and praying that one day he will be reunited with his estranged son. One day a wounded bandit named Sher Singh ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 16% from 3 members
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  • Karm on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Rajesh Khanna,  Rajesh khanna,  Vidya Sinha
    Director: B.R. Chopra
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When Arvind and Asha are denied their families approval for their marriage, they live together anyway. But a prophecy Asha'a father makes begins to come true and will challenge the couple to the core.
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 22 members
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  • Amar Akbar Anthony on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Vinod Khanna,  Rishi Kapoor,  Amitabh Bachchan
    Director: Manmohan Desai
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The story of three brothers, Amar, Akbar and Anthony who are raised separately after being abandoned by their father. They do not know of each other and their lives become intertwined when they meet and fall in love with the same woman.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,010 member
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  • Nishant on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Girish Karnad,  Shabana Azmi,  Anant Nag
    Director: Shyam Benegal
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Vishwam (Naseeruddin Shah) is the youngest son of the powerful, and influential village Zamindar (Amrish Puri). The Zamindar will not hesitate to do anything for the welfare and protection of his family, which also includes bending the law to his own advantage. Vishwam is married to Rukmani (Smita ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 33% from 3 members
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  • Ankur (1974)
    Starring: Anant Nag,  Agha Mohammad Hussain,  Sadhu Meher
    Director: Shyam Benegal
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Surya is the college going son of a well to do farmer and is forced into giving up his studies in order to take care of family property. He is married against his wishes to a young girl Saru who will join him when she reaches puberty. Bored and lonely in his farmhouse, Surya finds himself attracted ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 9 members
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  • Sati (1954)
    Starring: Shabana Azmi,  Kali Banerjee
    Director: Amar Mullick
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Uma is an orphan who was bought up by her uncle. The mute uma also has problems in her horoscope. Who ever marries her will die for sure. Her uncle's own daughter is ready for marriage but Uma being the eldest the problem of younger marrying before elder arises. So the men folk and the local priest ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 16 members
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  • Mrityudand on DVD
    Starring: Ayub Khan,  Dr. Mohan Agashe,  Harish Patel
    Director: Prakash Jha
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ketaki, a newly wed bride slowly begins to discover the undercurrents that lie beneath the apparent calmness of the household she has married into. Her husband’s brother is obsessed with religion and lives a celibate life while his beautiful wife, Chandravati, languishes in frustration. Kanti, a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 31 members
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  • Saaz on DVD
    Starring: Aruna Irani,  Ayesha Dharker,  Parikshit Sahani
    Director: Sai Paranjpye
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Mansi and Bansi are two daughters of renowed singer, Vrundavan. After the death of their mother, the entire responsiblity of the household falls upon Mansi. She focuses on her career in singing and becomes an accomplished and famous singer. However, when Bansi also excels in singing, Mansi feels ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 10 members
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  • Devata on DVD
    Starring: Asit Sen,  Danny Denzongpa,  Dhumal
    Director: S. Ramanathan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tony, a village orphan marries his sweetheart but loses her in childbirth. He showers all his love and devotion on his child Mary. Mary falls in love with a playboy and when he refuses to marry her Tony goes to see him but is found dead. Tony is arrested and sentenced for life but he flees from ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 28% from 9 members
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  • Vishwasghaat on DVD
    Starring: Sanjeev Kumar,  Shabana Azmi,  Kabir Bedi
    Director: Mahesh Bhatt
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Mahesh (Sanjeev Kumar) returns to India after a long time abroad, and makes the disillusioning discovery that his father (also played by Sanjeev Kumar) makes his fortune in illegal goods. Righteously disavowing his family wealth, Mahesh marries Seema (Shabana Azmi) and begins a life of simplicity, ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 27% from 7 members
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  • Fakira on DVD
    Starring: Achala Sachdev,  Aruna Irani,  Asit Sen
    Director: C. P. Dixit
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Vijay and Ajay watch helplessly as their house burns down killing their parents. They are subsequently separated, and Vijay becomes Fakira, a criminal. However, he robs the rich to provide for the poor. Chimanbhai, a criminal don, perturbed by Fakira’s thefts, recruits Toofan, a hitman to kill him. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 14 members
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  • Atithee on DVD
    Starring: Deven Verma,  Shabana Azmi,  Shashi Kapoor
    Director: Arvind Sen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When Neela's elder brother Nabendu is implicated in a wagon-breaking charge by Avinash and banished, the burden of maintaining the family falls to her. Enter Anand, a close friend of Nabendu, who comes to stay and experiences the bliss of family life for the first time and falls in love with Neela. ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 26% from 10 members
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Shabana Azmi facts

5 most recent films

It's a Wonderful Afterlife - 3.0 stars
Sorry Bhai! - 2.0 stars
Loins of Punjab Presents - 3.0 stars
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. - 3.0 stars
Umrao Jaan - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Amar Akbar Anthony - 3.5 stars
Arth - 3.5 stars
Fire - 3.0 stars
Mandi - 3.0 stars
Umrao Jaan - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Waterbourne - 3 stars
Khoon Ki Pukaar - 1.0 stars
Khamosh - 1.5 stars
Atithee - 1.5 stars
Vishwasghaat - 1.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Danny Denzongpa - 4 times - show films
Vinod Khanna - 4 times - show films
Shashi Kapoor - 4 times - show films
Om Puri - 3 times - show films
Naseeruddin Shah - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Shyam Benegal - 5 times - show films
J P Dutta - 3 times - show films
Mahesh Bhatt - 3 times - show films
Ben Rekhi - 2 times - show films
Gurinder Chadha - 2 times - show films