Shabana Azmi is the only actor to win the National Award for Best Actor five times. She won it for her first release, Ankur, in 1974. She went on to win the National Award for three consecutive years, from 1983 to 1985, for her notable work in the films Arth, Khandhar, and Paar.Today on her 67th Birthday(born on 18 September 1950) I wish her a Happy Birthday and discuss her 5 Memorable Roles.
The daughter of poet Kaifi Azmi and stage actress Shaukat Azmi, she is the alumna of Film and Television Institute of India of Pune. Azmi made her film debut in 1974 and soon became one of the leading actresses of Parallel Cinema.Her first release, however, was Shyam Benegal's directorial debut Ankur (1974).though she signed K A Abbas film Faasla and began work on Kanti Lal Rathod's Parinay as well.
She was a graduate in psychology from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, before her acting stint. She watched Jaya Bhaduri in a film and was so enthralled by the actor’s performance that she decided to enroll herself in the Film and Television Institute of India (FTTI), Pune. She topped the list of successful candidates of 1972.
She has acted in more than one hundred Hindi films, both in the mainstream as well as in Parallel Cinema. Several of her films have received attention in the international arena and Scandinavian countries, including at the Norwegian Film Institute, the Smithsonian Institution and the American Film Institute. She has appeared in a number of foreign films,
Five memorable roles
Mahesh Bhatt's `Arth' wher she plays the role of Puja whose husband falls in love with another woman and leaves her.that role of her I cherished the most
Khandahar
In this film she played the role of Jaimini For this role she was given National Award.
Ankur'
Her first released movie where she plays the role of Laxmi She got her National Award for this film
Fire,
a Deepa Mehta's Film in which she portrayed Radha,It was one of the first mainstream Bollywood films to explicitly show homosexual relations.
Morning Raga
She played the role of Swarnalata who is a classically trained Carnatic singer who lost her son and best friend, Vaishnavi in a bus accident. Shabana Azmi trained intensively in Carnatic music before she was allowed to sing during the film.
She has been a committed social activist, In 1989, along with Swami Agnivesh and Asghar Ali Engineer, she undertook a four-day march for communal harmony from New Delhi to Meerut. Since 1989, she has been a member of the National Integration Council headed by the Prime Minister of India; a member of National AIDS Commission (of India); and was nominated (in 1997) as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament. In 1998, the United Nations Population Fund appointed her as its Goodwill Ambassador for India.
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