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  • Tehzeeb
  • Tehzeeb review by A customer from Reading, England
    Rated - 2 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...  
  • Umrao Jaan
  • Umrao Jaan review by A customer from Manchester
    Rated - 3 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...  

Shabana Azmi - filmography


  • 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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 898 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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 489 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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 348 members
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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 »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 35% from 12 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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 204 members
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  • Makdee on DVD (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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 92 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.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 23 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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 17 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 »
    Rate this: 1 star out of 5 15% from 2 members
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  • Mandi (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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 54 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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 6 members
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  • Arth (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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 104 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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 9 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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 27 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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 44% from 12 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 »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 29 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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 4 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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 15 members
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  • Karm on DVD
    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.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 17 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 »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 6 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 »
    Rate this: 1 star out of 5 20% from 3 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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 9 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 »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 27% from 4 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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 19 members
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  • Junoon on DVD
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 56 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 »
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Shabana Azmi facts

5 most recent films

It's a Wonderful Afterlife - 3.0 stars
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. - 3.0 stars
Umrao Jaan - 3.0 stars
15 Park Avenue - 3.0 stars
Waterborne - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

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

5 lowest-rated films

Khamosh - 1.0 stars
Vishwasghaat - 1.0 stars
Atithee - 1.5 stars
Devata - 1.5 stars
Waterborne - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Shashi Kapoor - 4 times - show films
Om Puri - 3 times - show films
Rajesh Khanna - 3 times - show films
Naseeruddin Shah - 3 times - show films
Rajesh khanna - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Shyam Benegal - 4 times - show films
Mahesh Bhatt - 3 times - show films
Umesh Mehra - 1 times - show films
Amar Mullick - 1 times - show films
Prakash Jha - 1 times - show films