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Shabana Azmi
Daughter of late Urdu
poet Kaifi Azmi & stage actress Shaukat Kaifi, Shabana is a stage and
screen actress, social activist and a member of the Indian parliament, Rajya
Sabha.
Screen credits
Best actress Ankur '74
National award winner for Arth '83, Khandhar '84, Paar '85 and GodMother '99
Best actress Libaas '93(North Korea)
Best actress Patang "94(Aormina Arte Festival)
Best actress Fire '96(Chicago Film Fest & LA Outfest).
Other international
screen credits include
Madam Sousatzka, The Bengali Night, City of Joy, Immaculate Conception, The
son of Pink Panther, In Custody. Stage credit: Tumhari Amrita
Film retrospectives
George Pompidou Centre, Paris, Norwegian Film Institute, The Smithsonian
Institution, Washington DC, American Film Institute, Washington DC, Pacific
Cinemetheque and Winnipeg Cinematheque. Chairperson of jury at Montreal &
Cairo International Film Festivals.
As a social activist
Chairperson of Nivara Hakk Suraksha Samiti (land/alterne dwelling for slum
dwellers); 4-day march for communal harmony w/Swami Agnivesh & Asghar Ali
Engineer; Rajiv Gandhi award for 'Excellence in Secularism' '94; 'Yash Bhartiya'
award for highlighting women's issues; fundraising for displaced Kashmiri
migrants and victims of the Latur earthquake thru performing 'Tumhari
Amrita'; addressed women's issues, communal harmony, social justice at
Columbia U, Berkeley, UC Irvine, MIT, Ann Arbor, Brynmore, U of Chicago, U of
London.
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