Shabana Azmi

Shabana Azmi (Hindi: शबाना आज़मी, Urdu: شبانه عظمي) (born 18 Sept 1950 in New Delhi, India) is digit of the leading actresses of parallel cinema.[1][2] She is a film actress as substantially as a social activist, and her performances in films in a variety of genres have generally earned her praises and awards including five wins of National Film Award for Best Actress.[1][3] She is mated to Indian poet Javed Akhtar.

Azmi mark from the FTII in 1973 and went on to clew on Khwaja Ahmad Abbas' Faasla and began work on Kanti Lal Rathod's Parinay as well. Her prototypal release, however, was Shyam Benegal's directorial entry Ankur (1974). Belonging to the arthouse genre of neo-realistic films, Ankur is supported on a true news which occurred in Hyderabad. Azmi played Lakshmi, a mated servant and villager who drifts into an affair with a college enrollee who visits the countryside. Azmi was not the original pick for the film, and several leading actresses of that time refused to do it. The film went on to embellish a field critical success, and Azmi won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her performances. Upperstall.com described her work in the film as \"an unpaid psychologically sharp performance rattling assorted from those seen normally dirt then in mainstream Sanskrit cinema\", and famous autarkical filmmaker Satyajit Ray commented, \"In Ankur she may not have fitted immediately into her rustic surroundings, but her poise and personality are never in doubt. In digit high pitched scenes, she pulls out the stops to firmly establish herself as digit of our finest hammy actresses\"