Shabana Azmi is currently in Budapest shooting for Steven Spielberg’s webseries. She was filled with a sense of unreality when news of Soumitra Chatterjee’s death reached her. “It was a rude...
To see Shabana Azmi take over the screen once again , and never mind its size, in Terrie Samundra’s otherwise-disappointing Kali Kuhi is to be made aware all over again that...
After a month in jail actress Rhea Chakraborty finally gets bail.And her friends and supporters in the film industry, most of them unwilling to express themselves on-record,...
Mee Raqsam makes me wonder why your brother Baba took so log to make his directorial debut? Ha! We’ve been pushing him for years. I am very excited that Mee Raqsam (...
If there is one person in Shabana Azmi’s life who is more precious to her than husband Javed Akhtar it is her brother Baba Azmi. With the death of their beloved mother Shaukat Kaifi last...
There was a spot of panic when a BMC poster quarantining the Akhtars’ residence where Javed Akhtar’s daughter lives with her mother Honey Irani, showed up...
Shabana Azmi says the lockdown has made her forget what dressing up means. “I am lolling around our house in any thing. Kuch bhi kapde pahen leti hoon. Does this mean that we make an effort...
“I loved the lines he wrote for his characters. They were so close to real life I didn’t have the audacity to change even a word...
In 1977 Movie Moghul Manmohan Desai had two blockbuster releases Amar Akbar Anthony and Parvarish. Both starred Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Neetu Singh and Shabana Azmi. How did Desai manage to shoot two multi-starrers with the same cast simultaneously? Shabana sheds ...
Shabana Azmi joins other international stars to collaborate with Erri de Luca, a major Italian author, some would even say the greatest Italian writing today. Luca has launched a new...
While many in the film fraternity like Anurag Kashyap and Dia Mirza are openly praising Deepika Padukone for her visit to the lately-vandalized Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) in Delhi, others are not so happy with what they see...
On Friday evening the legendary theatre personality, activist actress Shaukat Azmi left us.She was 93 and still spirited to the hilt when it came to her two favourite...
On September 18 when India’s most celebrated living film actress Shabana Azmi turns 69, she will be packing her bags to leave for a performance dedicated to her father...
Shabana Azmi has signed Spielberg’s 9- part web series Halo directed by Otto Bathurst who has lately helmed Black Mirror. Halo is one of the most popular video game franchises in the world, having...
One of the most committed actors of all times Shabana Azmi firmly believes in LGBTQ rights. Years ago when the movement was in its infancy in 1996, Shabana dared to play a...
Two of Indian cinema’s most formidable actresses are all set to come together again after 14 years. Mozez Singh who directed the powerful Zubaan in 2015(Vicky...