Shabana Azmi is an well known Indian actress theatre actress & social worker. She was born on born 18th September 1950 in Hyderabad, India. She is known for her movies Sparsh (1985), Makdee (2003), Tehzeeb (2004), Neerja (2017), and the Indian actress will also be starring in the upcoming film Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani (2023). She started her career in acting with Shyam Benegal’s megahit movie “Ankur”. Shabana’s performance was critically acclaimed and her way of acting also won her award for the Best National Actress.
Shabana Azmi has mostly appeared in realistic roles during her eminent career. She was frequently compared with her corresponding person Smitha Patil. In that era, both of them competed for the similar roles and Smitha-Shabana competition was the most followed showbiz news then. In the year 1982, they both acted together in critically acclaimed Bollywood movie Arth. She so far has acted in more than 120 Bengali and Hindi movies. Shabana has also acted in a number of foreign movies as well. She holds an exclusive record of getting five National Awards under the nomination of Best Actress.
Shabana Azmi belongs to a muslim family. Shabana Azmi’s father’s name is Shaukat Kaifi and her mother’s name is Kaifi Azmi. She has two siblings one brother and brother’s name is Baba Azmi and her sister’s name is Tanvi Azmi. She got married to Javed Akhtar, who is also a famous screenwriter the couple has two children one son and one daughter son’s name is Farhan Akhtar and the daughter’s name is Zoya Akhtar.