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Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi (Hindi: शबाना आज़मी, Urdu: شبانه عظمي) (born 18 September 1950 in New Delhi, India) is one of the leading actresses of parallel cinema. She is a film actress as well as a social activist, and her performances in films in a variety of genres have generally earned her praises and awards...
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15, Park Avenue
15 Park Avenue is a 2005 National Film Award winning English-language Indian film directed by Aparna Sen.
The film is the story of the relationship between a girl, Meethi, (Konkona Sen Sharma) who suffers from schizophrenia, and her sister Anjali ...
Ankur
Ankur (Hindi: अंकुर, Urdu: اَنکُر, translation: The Seedling) is an Indian colour film of 1974. It was the first feature film directed by Shyam Benegal and the debut of Indian actors Shabana Azmi and Anant Nag. Though Shabana Azmi had acted in other...
City of Joy
City of Joy is a novel written by Dominique Lapierre (1985) and a 1992 film directed by Roland Joffé.
The story concerns the trials and tribulations of a young priest, Steven Kovalski and is based on real life priest Gaston Grandjean, living in...
Fire
Fire (Hindi: फायर) is a 1996 film directed and written by Deepa Mehta, starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. It is the first of Mehta's "Elements" trilogy. It is followed by Earth (1998) and Water (2005).
The film is loosely based on Ismat Chugtai...
In Custody
In Custody/Muhafiz (1993) is a film by Merchant Ivory Productions. It was directed by Ismail Merchant, with a screenplay by Anita Desai and Shahrukh Husain. It is based upon Desai's 1984 Booker Prize nominated novel In Custody.
Deven's (Om Puri)...
Madame Sousatzka
Madame Sousatzka (1988) is a film directed by John Schlesinger, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It is based upon the novel of the same name by Bernice Rubens.
Bengali immigrant Sushila Sen (Shabana Azmi) lives in London with her son Manek...
Umrao Jaan
Umrao Jaan (Urdu: امراؤ جان, Hindi: उमराव जान) is a Bollywood production starring Aishwarya Rai as the famous courtesan. The film is directed by J.P. Dutta and also stars Shabana Azmi, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Divya Dutta, Himani Shivpuri...
Arth
Arth (Hindi: अर्थ, in English: The Meaning) is a 1982 film directed by Mahesh Bhatt, starring Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil, Raj Kiran and Rohini Hattangadi. It features a memorable soundtrack by Ghazals duo , Jagjit Singh and...
Sparsh
Sparsh (Devnagari: स्पर्श, in English: Touch) is a 1980 Bollywood feature film directed by Sai Paranjpye. It stars Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi playing the characters of a visually handicapped principal and a "singhted" teacher in a School of...
Masoom
Masoom (Hindi: मासूम or "The Innocent") is a 1983 Indian film and Shekhar Kapur's first directorial venture. The critically acclaimed film starred Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Tanuja, Supriya Pathak and Saeed Jaffrey, as well as child actors...
Morning Raga
Morning Raga is an Indian film with most of the dialogue in English, released in 2004. Directed by Lalit Nainani and starring Bollywood stars Shabana Azmi,Perizad Zorabian and Tollywood Hero Prakash. The film is unusual for its sensible storyline...
Khamosh
Khamosh is 1985 Indian thriller directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The film starred Bollywood actors such as Naseerudin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Amol Palekar, Soni Razdan and Pankaj Kapoor. It, however, did not do well at the box office.
The...
Lahu Ke Do Rang
Lahu Ke Do Rang is a 1979 Hindi movie directed by Mahesh Bhatt. The film stars Vinod Khanna, Helen Richardson, Danny Denzongpa, Shabana Azmi and Ranjeet. The films music is by Bappi Lahiri. The film was shot in Hong Kong and India.
Toote Khilone
Toote Khilone is a 1978 Bollywood film produced by Prem Sawhney and Mahendra Shah. The film is directed by Ketan Anand ( son of Chetan Anand). The film stars Ketan's cousin Shekhar Kapoor, Shabana Azmi and Utpal Dutt. The films music is by Bappi...
Thodisi Bewafaii
Thodisi Bewafaii is a 1980 Hindi movie written and directed by Esmaeel Shroff. The film stars Rajesh Khanna, Shabana Azmi and Padmini Kohlapure. The music is by Khayyam.
Thodisi Bewafaii at the Internet Movie Database
Amar Akbar Anthony
Amar Akbar Anthony (Devnagari: अमर अकबर एन्थोनी) is a 1977 Bollywood film about three brothers separated during their childhood who grew up in three different homes, adopting three different religions. It was the biggest blockbuster of 1977 and has...
Main Azaad Hoon
Main Azaad Hoon is a 1989 Hindi movie, said to be inspired by Meet John Doe. The film was written by Javed Akhtar, directed by Tinnu Anand, and starred Amitabh Bachchan and Shabana Azmi.
The movie begins with a female journalist named Asha (Shabana...
Side Streets
Side Streets is a 1998 Merchant Ivory film directed by Tony Gerber.
Ensemble cast included Valeria Golino, Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Miho Nikaido, Art Malik, Victor Argo, Rosario Dawson, Jennifer Esposito.
Bhavna
Bhavna is a 1984 Hindi movie directed by Pravin Bhatt. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Marc Zuber, Saeed Jaffrey, Rohini Hattangadi, Kanwaljeet Singh, Satish Shah and Urmila Matondkar. The film's music is by Bappi Lahiri.
Bhavna is also a hindi...
Hum Paanch
Hum Paanch (English We Five) is a 1980 Bollywood film directed by Bapu and produced by Boney Kapoor. The film features a huge all-star cast including Sanjeev Kumar, Shabana Azmi, Mithun Chakraborty, Naseeruddin Shah, Raj Babbar, Gulshan Grover and...
City of Joy
City of Joy is a 1992 film directed by Roland Joffé, with a screenplay by Mark Medoff. It is based upon the novel of the same name by Dominique Lapierre.
Hasari Pal (Om Puri) is a rural farmer who moves to Calcutta with his wife (Shabana Azmi) and...
Ek Doctor Ki Maut
Ek Doctor Ki Maut (Hindi: एक डॉकटर की मौत , English: Death of a Doctor) is a 1990 award winning film by noted Bengali director Tapan Sinha, which depicts the social ostracization, bureaucratic negligence, reprimand and insult of a doctor and his...
Saaz
Saaz is a Hindi movie produced and directed by Sai Paranjpye and released in 1998, starring Aruna Irani and Shabana Azmi in lead roles.
Saaz allegedly based on the life of legendary singing sisters of Bollywood Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle ....
Gaja Gamini
Gaja Gamini (Devanagari: गज गामिनी, translation: One with a walk like an elephant) is an 2000 Indian film written and directed by M.F. Husain and is his ode to womanhood and his muse of the time, Madhuri Dixit, who stars as the lead in the film ....
Junoon
Junoon (Hindi: जुनून, translation: The Obsession) is a 1978 Hindi film produced by Shashi Kapoor and directed by Shyam Benegal. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Nafisa Ali, Tom Alter, Shabana Azmi, Jennifer Kendal, Karan Kapoor, Kunal Kapoor, Sanjana...
Fakira
Fakira is a 1976 Hindi movie produced by N.N. Sippy and directed by C.P. Dixit. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Asrani, Aruna Irani, Danny Denzongpa, Asit Sen, Ramesh Deo, Madan Puri and Shetty. The music is by Ravindra Jain. The film...
The Bengali Night
The Bengali Night is a 1988 semi-autobiographical film based upon the Mircea Eliade 1933 Romanian novel, Bengal Nights, directed by Nicolas Klotz and starring Hugh Grant and the Indian actors Soumitra Chatterjee and Shabana Azmi.
Allan (Hugh Grant)...
Makdee
Makdee (देवनागरी:मकड़ी, English literal = Spider), promoted as The Web Of The Witch in English, is a children's film in Hindi directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, starring Shabana Azmi, Makrand Deshpande, Shweta Prasad, and Alaap Mazgaonkar.
Life in Chunni...
Swami
Swami is a 1977 Hindi film directed by Basu Chatterjee and produced by Jaya Chakravarty (mother of Hema Malini).
The film stars Shabana Azmi, Vikram, Girish Karnad, Utpal Dutt. Hema Malini and Dharmendra make a guest appearance together in the film....
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. is a Bollywood movie, released on 23 February 2007. It is produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani through Excel Entertainment and has marked the debut of Reema Kagti as a director.
The story is about six couples,...
Sati
Sati is a Bengali movie released in 1989 directed by Aparna Sen.The movie featured Shabana Azmi.
The young Brahmin girl (Shabana Azmi) in this story has a disastrous horoscope. In an Indian village in 1828, this can be a real handicap. The fact that...
Namkeen
Namkeen (Devanāgarī: नमकीन), directed by Gulzar was released in the year 1982. It was yet another movie by Gulzar made on some very sensitive but untouched aspects of Indian society especially in rural areas.
This is a story of three unmarried...
Karm
Karm is a 1977 Hindi movie produced and directed by B. R. Chopra. The film stars Rajesh Khanna, Vidya Sinha and Shabana Azmi. The music is by R. D. Burman.
Retired Judge Shyamlal Kumar lives in a palatial home with his wife and only son, Arvind, who...
Khandhar
Khandhar (translation: "The Ruins") is a 1984 Hindi movie directed by Mrinal Sen. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapoor. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
Three friends from...
Paar
Paar (translation: "The Crossing ") is a 1984 Hindi movie directed by Goutam Ghose. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri.
The film of exploitation in rural Bihar, in which a landlord (Utpal Dutt)’s men wreck a village and kill...
Ek Hi Bhool
Ek Hi Bhool is a 1981 Indian Bollywood film directed by T. Rama Rao. The film stars Jeetendra and Rekha in leading roles. Shabana Azmi makes a special appearance. The film belongs to an "Art Film" genre, also known as Parallel Cinema.
Ram (Jeetendra...
Genesis
Genesis is a 1986 Hindi-language movie directed by Mrinal Sen. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
A farmer (Naseeruddin Shah) and a weaver (Om Puri) exchange their products...
Nishant
Nishant (translation: "Night's End") is a 1975 Hindi film directed by Shyam Benegal, and written by noted playwright Vijay Tendulkar.
The film stars Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Smita Patil. This film focuses on the power of the rural elite...
Ek Din Achanak
Ek Din Achanak (Hindi: एक दिन अचानक , English: Suddenly, One Day) is a 1989 art film directed by Mrinal Sen.
One evening, in the midst of torrential rains, a professor (Shreeram Lagoo) goes out for a walk and fails to return. As the evening...
Loins of Punjab Presents
Loins of Punjab Presents is a 2007 film directed by Manish Acharya. It stars Shabana Azmi, Ayesha Dharker and Ajay Naidu.
Tehzeeb
Tehzeeb (Hindi: तह्ज़ीब, Urdu: تہزیب, translation: etiquette) is a 2003 Indian Bollywood film directed by Khalid Mohammed. It premiered on 21 November 2003. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Urmila Matondkar, Diya Mirza, Arjun Rampal and Rishi Kapoor in...
Mandi
Mandi (Hindi: मंडी) (translation: Market Place) is a 1983 Hindi movie directed by Shyam Benegal.
The film is a satirical comedy on politics and prostitution, and stars Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Smita Patil. Based on a classic Urdu short...
Dharavi
Dharavi (City of Dreams) is critically acclaimed 1991 Hindi film, directed and written by Sudhir Mishra.
The film was a joint NFDC-Doordarshan production and went on to winning many awards in the following year, including the 1992 National Film...
Susman
Susman (Essence) is a 1987 Hindi film directed by Shyam Benegal. The film highlighted the struggle of rural handloom weavers in the wake of rapid industrialization.
The film was selected for the Indian Panorama at Filmotsav 1987. Invited to the...
Hari-Bhari
Hari-Bhari (Fertility) is 2000 Hindi film by Shyam Benegal, starring Shabana Azmi , Rajit Kapur, Rajeshwari Sachdev , Surekha Sikri and Nandita Das in lead roles.
The film revolves around the story of five women, belonging to different generations,...
Positive
Positive is a 2007, Hindi short film directed by Farhan Akhtar, and produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidwani under their Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. banner. The film starred Shabana Azmi and Boman Irani in leads roles .
The film was a part of ...
Ek Aadmi
Ek Aadmi is 1988 Hindi language movie directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and starring Shabana Azmi, Parikshat Sahni, Tun Tun.
Disha
Disha (The Uprooted) was a 1990 Hindi directed by Sai Paranjpye, based on the plight of immigrant workers in urban India, and starring Shabana Azmi, Nana Patekar, Om Puri in lead roles.
The film was a part of the Indian Panorama at the International...
Doosri Dulhan
Doosri Dulhan is a Bollywood film directed by Lekh Tandon. The film centers around a childless couple (Victor Banerjee and Sharmila Tagore) and a prostitute (Shabana Azmi) who is hired as a surrogate mother. The movie was remade years later as Chori...
Mrityudand
Mrityudand ("The Death Sentence") is an Indian Hindi movie released in 1997. It was directed and produced by Prakash Jha and stars Madhuri Dixit, Shabana Azmi, Ayub Khan, Mohan Agashe and Om Puri.
The film is a commentary on social and gender...
Sorry Bhai!
Sorry Bhai is a Bollywood film starring Shabana Azmi, Boman Irani, Sanjay Suri, Sharman Joshi and Chitrangada Singh. It is directed by Onir and is released on 28 November 2008. Onir has previously written-edited-directed My Brother Nikhil (2005) and...
My Name is Khan
My Name Is Khan (Hindi: माई नेम इज़ खान) is an upcoming 2010 Bollywood film based upon a true story. It is directed by Karan Johar, co-produced by Johar (Dharma Productions) and Shahrukh Khan, (Red Chillies Entertainment) has a screenplay by Shibani...
Parvarish
Parvarish (English: "Upbringing") is a 1977 Hindi film directed by Manmohan Desai. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod Khanna as two brothers playing oneupmanship, because one brother believes he is adopted and not the real son. Shabana Azmi...
It's a Wonderful Afterlife
It's a Wonderful Afterlife is an upcoming Indian/British/American comedy film directed by Gurinder Chadha. The screenplay is by Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges and it centered on an Indian mother who takes her obsession with marriage into the world of...
Antarnaad
Antarnaad (Hindi: अंतरनाद) (Inner voice), was a 1991 Hindi film made by Shyam Benegal, based on Swadhyay Movement by Pandurang Shastri Athavale.
Ishq Ishq Ishq
Ishq Ishq Ishq is an Indian film from 1974 directed by and starring Dev Anand along with Zeenat Aman, Kabir Bedi, and Shabana Azmi.
Dhun (Dev Anand) comes from a wealthy and talented family. His desire is to see the world on his own, and he sets...
