On-Screen Moments That Make Shabana Azmi One Of A Kind

The sublime Shabana Azmi has forever been an actor who converged the realms between masses and art aficionados. From acting with aplomb in mainstream Manmohan Shetty movies to being Shyam Benegal and Shekhar Kapur’s muse, there wasn’t – isn’t – a character she can’t carry off with haunting prowess that quiets down all the noise around her. To traversing a path of a ravaged housewife, to a criminal warlord, to a teacher, to a hostile step-mother – Shabana Azmi’s repertoire reads of characters that are feisty and fierce. Here we bring to you such moments that no cine-lover can ever deny shaped Indian cinema’s progressive curve.

1. Shatranj Ke Khiladi

2. Amar Akbar Anthony

3. Arth

4. Mandi

5. Masoom

6. Nishant

7. Fire

8. Saaz

9. Godmother

10. 15 Park Avenue

11. Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. 

12. The Reluctant Fundamentalist

13. Morning Raga

14. Neerja