Nom de naissance Shabana Kaifi Azmi NationalitéInde Naissance 18 septembre 1950 (74 ans) à Azamgarh (Inde) Récompenses Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Filmfare Awards
Shabana Azmi, née le 18 septembre 1950 à Hyderabad (Telangana), est une actrice, ambassadrice de bonne volonté, femme politique et militante indienne. Elle commence sa carrière d'actrice avec le film Ankur (1973) de Shyam Benegal, interprétant le rôle de Laxmi, tandis qu'elle n'est âgée que de 23 ans. Elle devient l'une des actrices principales du « cinéma parallèle », un mouvement de nouvelle vague bengali connu pour son contenu sérieux et néo-réaliste avec un engagement social et politique.
Elle est l'une des plus grandes figures du cinéma indien, et son talent est reconnu dans le monde entier grâce à Shyam Benegal, Satyajit Ray, Deepa Mehta et Mrinal Sen. Ses performances lui ont valu d'être récompensée par le National Film Awards à cinq reprises et par de nombreux festivals internationales. Elle a reçu quatre Filmfare Awards et a été honorée parmi « les femmes au cinéma » lors de la 30e cérémonie du Festival international du film d'Inde.
Elle apparaît dans plus de 120 films et nombre d'entre eux ont été cités comme une forme de progressisme qui dépeint la société indienne, ses coutumes et ses traditions. Ambassadrice de bonne volonté, Shabana Azmi a défendu diverses causes humanitaires à travers l'Inde et est réputée pour son travail en faveur du droit à la contraception et l'avortement avec le Fonds des Nations unies pour la population. Elle est engagée pour la défense des droits des femmes et des malades atteints du SIDA. [...]Voir plus...
Biographie
Shabana Kaifi Azmi est née le 18 septembre 1950 à Hyderabad, dans l'état de (Telangana), en Inde, au sein d'une famille musulmane. Elle est la fille d'un grand poète de langue ourdou, Kaifi Azmi et de l'actrice Shaukat Azmi, tous deux membres du Parti communiste d'Inde. Son frère, Baba Azmi, est photographe. Ses parents la surnommèrent Munni. Ils avaient une vie sociale active, et leur maison était toujours prospère avec les gens proches du parti communiste. Durant son enfance, on lui inculque le respect des liens familiaux, des valeurs sociales et humaines. Elle fut toujours soutenue dans sa passion pour la stimulation intellectuelle et la croissance.
Elle a fait des études supérieures à la Queen Mary School pour filles à Mumbai, elle est diplômée en psychologie au St. Xavier's College de Mumbai et finit par suivre des cours d'interprétations à l'institut du cinéma de Pune. [...]Voir plus...
, 1h40 Réalisé parGurinder Chadha OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresComédie, Romance ActeursGoldy Notay, Shabana Azmi, Sally Hawkins, Goldy Notay, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Zoë Wanamaker Rôle Mrs. Sethi Note53% Mrs. Sethi (Shabana Azmi) is a widow living in Southall who wants to marry off her only daughter, for she is alone and unhappy. Her daughter, Roopi, (Goldy Notay) is a little plump and opinionated. Mrs. Sethi finds that all her matchmaking efforts are rudely rejected. She avenges this behaviour toward her daughter by murdering the failed dates using her culinary skills. A police hunt begins for a serial murderer using a killer curry.
Réalisé parOnir GenresDrame, Romance ActeursSharman Joshi, Shabana Azmi, Boman Irani, Chitrangada Singh, Sanjay Suri, Gaurav Nanda Rôle Gayatri Note61% Siddharth Mathur (Sharman Joshi), a shy young scientist, travels to Mauritius for his elder brother Harsh's (Sanjay Suri) wedding. Accompanying him is his mother Gayatri (Shabana Azmi), a reluctant traveller since she is angry at Harsh for deciding to get married without consulting them. Also travelling is Siddharth's cheery father Navin (Boman Irani), whose sole entertainment is pulling Gayatri's leg. Harsh, pre-occupied with work, can spend little time with his family and it is left to his fiancée Aaliyah (Chitrangada Singh) to show them around Mauritius before the wedding. However, Ma's anger at Harsh ensures that she takes an instant dislike for Aaliyah, and it is Aaliyah and Siddharth who end up spending loads of time together. This, added to the fact that Aaliyah feels neglected by the career-obsessed Harsh, leads to them being irresistibly drawn to each other. A horrified Siddharth battles this attraction desperately, but Aaliyah has fallen madly in love and pursues him with single-minded determination. When Siddharth’s defences start crumbling and Ma starts getting suspicious, all hell breaks loose in the Mathur family. [...]Voir plus...
, 17minutes Réalisé parFarhan Akhtar GenresDrame ThèmesMaladie, Sida ActeursShabana Azmi, Boman Irani, Arjun Mathur Rôle Mrs. Soni Note79% Years ago, when Abhijit was a boy, he learned his father was involved in extramarital relationships. He kept it secret for several years, until tension rose too high and he left for Cape Town.
, 1h56 Réalisé parAparna Sen GenresDrame, Romance ThèmesMaladie, Folie ActeursShabana Azmi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Soumitra Chatterjee, Waheeda Rehman, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Rahul Bose Rôle Anu Note70% 30-something Mitali aka Meethi (Konkona Sen Sharma) suffers from Schizophrenia and is taken care of by her much older, divorced sister Anjali aka Anu (Shabana Azmi) and an ageing mother (Waheeda Rehman). Although she was never married in real life, Meethi has created her own alternate reality in her mind in which she got married to her ex-fiancé Joydeep (Rahul Bose) and has five children. While Anu has dedicated her life to taking care of Meethi and her mother, even putting her own relationship with a fellow professor (Kanwaljeet Singh) on hold, in Meethi's imaginary world both the older women are holding her in the house and away from her kids against her will. She imagines her family to be living at the non-existent 15 Park Avenue in Kolkata. [...]Voir plus...
, 50minutes OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresDrame ActeursShabana Azmi, Shobu Kapoor, Riz Ahmed, Sam Dastor, Gerard Horan, Preeya Kalidas Rôle Sofia Note68% Sofia (Shabana Azmi) is a disillusioned Bangladeshi woman in her 50s who has lived in a council tenement block near Brick Lane since coming to England as a young bride. Her elderly Bangladeshi husband Shafiq (Renu Setna) feeling marginalised by his spouse's attendance of yoga classes, goes back to Bangladesh for a holiday and returns after a year with a pregnant teenage bride.
, 1h50 Réalisé parMahesh Dattani GenresRomance ActeursShabana Azmi, Perizaad Zorabian, Prakash Kovelamudi, Lillete Dubey, Vijay Raaz, Thalaivaasal Vijay Rôle Swarnalata Note67% The story is set deep in the Andhra Pradesh countryside, in the West Godavari. Swarnalata (Shabana Azmi) is a classically trained Carnatic singer who lost her son and best friend, Vaishnavi in a bus accident. The story reopens after a period of 20 years, when Vaishnavi's son, Abhinay Prakash Kovelamudi, plans to leave his business of composing jingles with a desire to start a music troupe to compose an everlasting music just like the Charminar, and with these plans returns to his home in his village. His plan irks his father Nasser who wants him to look after the ancestral lands in the village. On the day of Death Anniversary of Vaishnavi, Abhinay spots Swarnalatha, and hears her song "Pibare Ramarasam" in the temple. When Swarnalatha leaves the temple, Abhinay stops her, saying, "you knew my mother" and follows her. The duo reach the bridge when a car comes and hits Abhinay, and the car was being driven by Pinky Perizaad Zorabian. Swarnalatha screams and reaches her home, with the 20 years old guilt in her mind that her one step on the bridge caused the accident. Here, the Car gets some glitch and Pinky is compelled to stay for the night in the village. Next morning both Abhinay and Pinky set for Hyderabad to seek the perfect artists for the proposed troop, and they get a guitarist and a drummer Balaji Shaleen Sharma. All land up at Pinky's boutique whose environment irritates Abhinay but somehow Pinky consoles him and the practices start, with a few opportunities coming up their way, but their rock-band does not receive the respect as Abhinay had expected. After a few days Abhinay receives the violin his mother used to play when she was alive. He returns to the village to return the violin to Swarnalatha, saying that both her voice and the sound of the violin are complementary to each other and one cannot exist without one another, and invites her to sing with their troop, for which she refuses saying that she won't come to the village and returns the violin. Swarnalatha's husband asks him to bring his troop to the house on Ganesh Chaturthi day. The troop arrives on the said date and Swarnalatha starts singing "Mahaganapathi Manasa Smarami", but stops in between and sings the sophisticated sargam of the song, for which no compatible music could be played. That evening Abhinay again compels Swarnalatha to sing in the city, but she again refuses, and Abhinay ends the communication with the note that She owes him a lot as he is her best friend's son, after all. Next morning Abhinay's father expresses his dislike in his son's musical career in front of Swarnalatha, and at the same time Swarnalatha agrees to sing for Abhinay in the city. She starts from her house with her husband. On the way their car breaks down and they are forced to take the bus, which crosses the bridge. Swarnalatha starts screaming, stops the bus and starts running and falls ill. Both return to home and her husband reports that she cannot come for singing. Next day Swarnalatha personally calls pinky and asks her to learn Carnatic Music. Pinky learns carnatic music from Swarnalatha. After a few days Abhinay plans a concert, though for Pinky to sing but always urges Swarnalatha to come for singing, but she continues to express her reluctance because she considers the bridge as a punishment for her ambitions. One day, while driving, Pinky gets irked at the repetitive reluctance of Swarnalatha, and speeds up the car and crosses the bridge, and Swarna starts screaming, "Stop the car! We all are going to die". Finally Pinky stops the car and reveals that her father was drunk and was responsible for the accident. The film ends with the concert in which Swarnalatha appears and sings "Thaaye Yashoda" on repeated urging from Pinky, and the concert becomes a 10-week hit. [...]Voir plus...
, 2h23 OrigineInde GenresDrame ThèmesLa musique, Musique, Bollywood ActeursShabana Azmi, Urmila Matondkar, Arjun Rampal, Diya Mirza, Rishi Kapoor, Namrata Shirodkar Rôle Rukhsana Jamal Note57% Anwar (Rishi Kapoor) et Rukhsana Jamal (Shabana Azmi) sont mariés depuis des années. Après la naissance de leurs deux filles, Tehzeeb et Nazeen, Anwar sombre dans la dépression et se suicide. Rukhsana est une chanteuse ambitieuse et populaire. Après la mort mystérieuse de son mari, sa fille aînée Tehzeeb (Urmila Matondkar) la soupçonne d'en être la cause. Malgré qu'une cour d'assises ait innocenté Rukhsana, Tehzeeb continue de l'accuser et lui en veut de l'avoir abandonnée ainsi que sa sœur Nazeen (Diya Mirza).