Her performances in films in a variety of genres have generally earned her praise and awards including five wins of the National Film Award for Best Actress. She is married to Indian poet and screenwriter Javed Akhtar.
Shabana Azmi completed a graduate degree in Psychology from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, and followed it with a course in Acting at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.
List of Movies
1974 - Ishk Ishk Ishk (Cast: Dev Anand, Zeenat Aman, Kabir Bedi, Premnath, Nadira)
1974 - Parinay (Cast: Romesh Sharma, Preeti Ganguly, Krishnakant)
1976 - Fakira (Cast: Sashi Kapoor, Madan Puri, Dany Dengzongpa, Aruna Irani)
1977 - Aadha Din Aadhi Raat (Cast: Vinod Khanna, Asha Parekh, Prem Chopra, Jaishri T, Jalal Agha)
1977 - Amar Akbar Anthony (Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Parveen Babi, Neetu Singh, Pran, Nirupa Roy, Jeevan)
1977 - KARM (Cast: Rajesh Khanna, Vidya Sinha, Asrani)
1977 - Parvarish (Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Amzad Khan, Shammi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Neetu Singh)
1977 - Swami (Cast: Girish Karnad, Vikram, Shashikala, Utpal Dutt, Dheeraj Kumar, Preeti Ganguli)
1978 - Devata (Cast: Sanjeev Kumar, Danny, Sarika, Rakesh Roshan, Keshto Mukherjee)
1978 - Khoon Ki Pukar (Cast: Vinod Khanna, Aruna Irani, Roopesh Kumar, Amzad Khan, Pran)
1978 - LAHU KE DO RANG (Cast: Vinod Khanna, Danny, Helen, Indrani Mukherjee, Ranjit, Prema Narayan, Goga Kapoor)
1978 - Toote Khilone (Cast: Shekhar Kapoor, Utpal Dutt, Urmila Bhatt)
1980 - Apne Paraye (Cast: Amol Palekar, Girish Karnad, Bharati Achrekar, Utpal Dutt, Ashalata, Manik Dutt)
1980 - Ek Baar Kaho (Cast: Navin Nischal, Rajendranath, Dilip Dhawan, Kiran Vairale, Suresh Oberoi)
1980 - SPARSH (Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri)
1980 - Thodi Si Bewafai (Cast: Rajesh Khanna, Padmini Kolhapure, Dr Shreeram Lagoo, Deven Varma, A K Hangal, Asrani)
1982 - Arth (Cast: Smita Patil, Kulbhushan Kharbanda)
1982 - Ashanti (Cast: Rajesh Khanna, Zeenat Aman, Mithun Chakraborty, Parveen Babi, Kanwaljeet)
1982 - Masoom (Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Saeed Jaffrey, Supriya Pathak, Jugal Hansraj, Urmila Matondkar)
1982 - Sweekar Kiya Maine (Cast: Vinod Mehra)
1982 - Yeh Nazdeekiyan (Cast: Parveen Babi, Marc Zuber)
1983 - Avtaar (Cast: Rajesh Khanna)
1984 - Bhavna (Cast: Marc Zuber)
1984 - Gangvaa (Cast: Shabana Azmi, Rajnikant)
1984 - Lorie (Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Swaroop Sampat, Rohini Hattangadi, B L Chopra )
1984 - Rahi Badal Gaye (Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Padmini Kolhapure, Shakti Kapoor, Suresh Oberoi)
1985 - EK PAL (Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Farooque Sheikh, Dr Shreeram Lagoo, Deena Pathak, Sreela Mazumdar)
1986 - Anjuman (Cast: Farooque Sheikh, Rohini Hattangadi, Shaukat Azmi, Yunus Parvez )
1989 - Oonch Neech Beech (Cast: Sanjeev Kumar, Shashi Kapoor)
1990 - Amba (Cast: Anil Kapoor)
1996 - Libaas (Cast: Raj Babbar, Naseeruddin Shah)
1997 - Bada Din (Cast: Tara Deshpande, Marc Robinson, Alok Nath)
1997 - Mrityu Dand (Cast: Ayub Khan, Om Puri, Madhuri Dixit)
1999 - Godmother (Cast: Milind Gunaji)
2002 - Makdee (Cast: Makrand Deshpande, Shweta)
2003 - Tehzeeb (Cast: Urmila Matondkar, Arjun Rampal, Diya Mirza, Rishi Kapoor)
2004 - Morning Raga (Cast: Lilete Dubey, Prakash Rao, Perizaad Zorabian)
2006 - Umrao Jaan (Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan, Sunil Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Divya Dutta)
2007 - Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (Cast: Amisha Patel, Kay Kay Menon, Sandhya Mridul, Boman Irani, Diya Mirza, Abhay Deol, Minissha Lamba, Raima Sen, Ranvir Shorey, Karan Khanaa, Vikram Chatwal, Arjun Rampal)
2008 - Sorry Bhai (Cast: Sanjay Suri, Boman Irani, Chitrangda Singh, Sharman Joshi)
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