List of the best Shabana Azmi movies: Makdee(2002), Fire(1996), Ek Baar Kaho(1980), 15 Park Avenue(2005), Morning Raga(2004), Lorie(1984), Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.(2007), Sonata(2017), It's a Wonderful Afterlife(2010), Jhoothi Shaan(1991), Saaz(1997), Kaali Khuhi(2020) ... ...
Kids & Family, Fantasy
India
2002
90 Minutes
Makdee
Shabana Azmi Shweta Prasad Makrand Deshpande Alaap Majgavkar Mohini Mathur Vineet Kumar Chittaranjan Giri
In a small North Indian village, Legend has it that a 100 years-old witch lives in an abandoned mansion on the village outskirts, and any person who goes inside is turned into an animal. In... See full summary »
Drama
Canada|India
1996
104 Minutes
Radha
Shabana Azmi Nandita Das Kulbhushan Kharbanda Jaaved Jaafei Ranjit Chowdhry Kushal Rehki Karishma Jhalani Ramanjeet Kaur Dilip Mehta Alice Poon Ram Gopal Bajaj
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Two women who are abandoned by their husbands, find love and solace in each other.
Drama, Romance
India
1980
142 Minutes
Shabana Azmi Naveen Nischol
Ravi Varma is a single eligible bachelor. He meets with Aarti Mathur, and both are attracted to each other. The problem is that Ravi is unable to express his love and attraction for Aarti, ... See full summary »
Drama
India
2005
116 Minutes
Anjali "Anju" Mathur
Shabana Azmi Konkona Sen Sharma Rahul Bose Kanwaljit Singh Shifaali Shah Waheeda Rehman Dhritiman Chatterjee Soumitra Chatterjee Parag Bhatnagar Yama Shroff
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An exploration of the impact of schizophrenia on a young woman and her family in today's Calcutta. The narrative pivots around the relationship of two sisters, older sister Anjali is a ... See full summary »
Drama
India
2004
93 Minutes
Swarnlatha
Shabana Azmi Prakash Rao Perizaad Zorabian Lillete Dubey Shaleen Sharma Vivek Mashru Joseph Vijay Ranjani Ramakrishnan Sanjay Swaroop
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A violinist and a vocal singer, their children; a businessman, his wife and their daughter accidentally meet on a bridge spanning the banks of the Godavari river in Andhra Pradesh, India. ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
India
1984
123 Minutes
Shabana Azmi Naseeruddin Shah Farooq Sheikh Swaroop Sampat Rohini Hattangadi Madan Puri Kiran Vairale Sulabha Deshpande Paresh Rawal Yunus Parvez
A woman, depressed that she in unable to bear children, abducts a child, and wants to keep him for her own. The child belongs to a large family consisting of 11 other children.
Comedy
India
2007
119 Minutes
Nahid
Shabana Azmi Boman Irani Kay Kay Menon Raima Sen Amisha Patel Karan Khanna Ranvir Shorey Diya Mirza Abhay Deol Minissha Lamba Sandhya Mridul
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Six newly-married, diverse, honeymooning couples face marital bliss and discord, finding out more about themselves, their significant others and life in this happy-go-lucky, quirky drama.
Drama
India
2017
103 Minutes
Dolon
While waiting for their college friend to arrive from out of town, three middle-aged women examine their lives.
Romance
UK
2010
100 Minutes
Mrs. Sethi
Shabana Azmi Goldy Notay Sendhil Ramamurthy Sally Hawkins Sanjeev Bhaskar Shaheen Khan Jimi Mistry Zoë Wanamaker Mark Addy
A comedy centered on an Indian mother who takes her obsession with marriage into the world of serial murder.
Drama, Action
India
1991
210 Minutes
Shabana Azmi Mithun Chakraborty Poonam Dhillon Shakti Kapoor Kanwaljit Singh Pallavi Joshi
Even after the end of her lustre empire, Ranimaa still believes that she is an empress, though her palace has now been turned into a hotel. She manages this hotel with the help of three ... See full summary »
Drama
1997
148 Minutes
Bansi
Shabana Azmi Aruna Irani Zakir Hussain Ayesha Dharker Parikshat Sahni Raghubir Yadav
Horror
2020
90 Minutes
Satya Maasi
Shabana Azmi Satyadeep Misra Riva Arora Sanjeeda Sheikh Leela Samson Hetvi Bhanushali Samuel John Rose Rathod
Shivangi, a 10-year-old girl, must save her family's village in Punjab from the restless ghosts of its horrific past.
Musical, Drama
India
1983
165 Minutes
Naseeruddin Shah Shabana Azmi Supriya Pathak Jugal Hansraj Urmila Matondkar Saeed Jaffrey Ram Gopal Bajaj Satish Kaushik Aziz Qureshi Pran Talwar Tanuja
A happy family goes through turbulent times because of a big mistake by one of the family members.
Biography, Drama
India
2016
122 Minutes
Sonam Kapoor Shabana Azmi Yogendra Tikku Shekhar Ravjiani Sadh Orhan Abrar Zahoor
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Neerja is the story of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.
Drama
India
1980
150 Minutes
Rajesh Khanna Shabana Azmi Sushant Ray Padmini Kolhapure Deven Verma A. K. Hangal Jalal Agha Shashi Kiran Raja Bakshi Urmilla Bhatt
Arvind Kumar Choudhary is widowed, respectable and wealthy businessman, who lives with his only son, Arun, in a palatial house. He re-marries another woman, Sujata, who is a widow, with two... See full summary »
Drama
India
1976
130 Minutes
In order to help the poor and needy; Vijay alias Fakira rob a gang leader, Chimanlal on multiple occasions of his cash and smuggled goods. This makes him a target of the police and ... See full summary »
Drama
India
2003
143 Minutes
Urmila Matondkar Shabana Azmi Arjun Rampal Diya Mirza Rishi Kapoor Namrata Shirodkar Diana Hayden
A singer and her two daughters have a tense reunion after years.
Comedy, Romance, Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
2017
80 Minutes
Parveen
Fawzia Mirza Shabana Azmi Sari Sanchez Audrey Francis Charin Alvarez Molly Brennan Mark J.P. Hood Minita Gandhi
Zaynab, a thirty-something Pakistani, Muslim, lesbian in Chicago takes care of her sweet and TV-obsessed mother. As Zaynab falls for Alma, a bold and very bright Mexican woman, she searches for her identity in life, love and wrestling.
Crime, Drama, Action
India
1992
150 Minutes
Shatrughan Sinha Shabana Azmi Sanjay Dutt Gulshan Grover Anita Raj Shakti Kapoor Paresh Rawal Kiran Kumar
Mr. Verma is the proud owner of a spacious bunglow named "Dharam Niwas". He is critical of his second son, Jaggan Verma (Kiran Kumar) due to his drinking habits, people of lose or no morals... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
India
1988
107 Minutes
Dharmendra Shabana Azmi Sanjay Dutt Danny Denzongpa Jayapradha Pinchoo Kapoor
Dacoit Sunder Singh kills a brave police officer, Shefali's husband. To avenge his death, Shefali secretly hires two mercenaries.
Comedy, Drama
2011
98 Minutes
Preeti Mehta
Adam Laupus Shabana Azmi
Accompanied by his cousin (Shabana Azmi), an Indian-American copywriter (Adam Laupus) goes to India to find a bride.
Drama, Romance
1974
131 Minutes
Anant Nag Shabana Azmi Sadhu Meher Priya Tendulkar
A married man seduces his servant but is unable to accept the responsibilities of her resulting pregnancy.
Drama
1989
120 Minutes
A newspaper reporter pays a man to use his name to print stories about corrupt politicians, but when he becomes a champion of the ordinary man for real, the pressure gets too much for him.
Drama
1997
152 Minutes
Madhuri Dixit Shabana Azmi Ayub Khan Om Puri Shilpa Shirodkar Mohan Joshi Mohan Agashe Harish Patel
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Documentary
India
2012
164 Minutes
U.R. Ananthamurthy Beena Antony Shabana Azmi Ramachandra Babu Jaya Bhaduri Kumar Bangarappa
This is the story of Mr P.K.Nair, a man who talks,eats,dreams and sleeps cinema. Lovingly known as Henri Langlois of India, Nair Sahab (P.K.Nair) is the man behind archiving of many films in India.
Comedy, Drama
India
1988
124 Minutes
Jeroo
Phirojshah (Naseeruddin Shah) and Pestonjee (Anupam Kher) are two close friends. They attempt to do everything together, and they hope that they will marry the same day as well. ... See full summary »
Comedy
India
2007
88 Minutes
Rrita Kapoor
Manish Acharya Avantika Akerkar Shabana Azmi
A ruthless philantrophist. A bhangra rapper. An over-protected prodigy. A reckless actress. A lovelorn businessman. An entrepreneurial yogi. And a Loin King. Enter a roller-coaster world of... See full summary »
Drama
India
1990
135 Minutes
Hansa P. Sarpat
The Sarpat family, who live in Bhukari, consist of Parsaram, who has been involved in digging a well for the past over 12 years and is now called 'Pagal Parsa'; his brother, Soma, who gets ... See full summary »
Drama
India
1981
163 Minutes
Sundariya
Sanjeev Kumar Mithun Chakraborty Shabana Azmi Deepti Naval Naseeruddin Shah Raj Babbar Aruna Irani Amrish Puri Kanhaiya Lal Gulshan Grover Uday Chandra
The wealthy and lecherous Zamindar Thakur Vir Pratap Singh lord over a small region in rural India mercilessly killing anyone who opposes his rule. He gets the male villagers addicted to ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1992
122 Minutes
Samira
James Wilby Melissa Leo Shabana Azmi Zia Mohyeddin James Cossins Shreeram Lagoo Ronny Jhutti Tim Choate
A childless Western couple visit a fertility shrine in Karachi run by eunuchs and set off a huge culture clash.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
India
2015
119 Minutes
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Irrfan Khan Shabana Azmi Jackie Shroff Atul Kulkarni Chandan Roy Sanyal Abhimanyu Singh Siddhant Kapoor Kaizaad Kotwal
Tensions arise when the daughter of nation's best lawyer is kidnapped. Now she'll have to save a rapist from death sentence, as ransom, within 4 days.
Comedy, Drama, History
1977
129 Minutes
Khurshid
Sanjeev Kumar Saeed Jaffrey Shabana Azmi Farida Jalal Veena David Abraham Victor Banerjee Farooq Shaikh Tom Alter Leela Mishra Richard Attenborough
In 1856, two obsessive chess players fail to notice British rule extending into their Indian province.
Drama
1977
156 Minutes
Rajesh Khanna Vidya Sinha Shabana Azmi Roopesh Kumar Om Shivpuri
Young lovers Arvind and Asha plan to marry, but when Asha's astrologer father predicts that her fiancé will die on their wedding day, the couple decide to sidestep fate and simply live together.
Drama, History
India
1978
141 Minutes
Firdaus
Shashi Kapoor Jalal Agha Nafisa Ali Shabana Azmi Benjamin Gilani Kulbhushan Kharbanda Sushma Seth
Set during the 1857 War of Independence, an obsessed Indian Nawab desires to wed a young Anglo-Indian woman, but the girl's obstinate mother stands between them.
Drama, History
UK|India|USA
2017
120 Minutes
Rani Jindan
Jason Flemyng Amanda Root David Essex Shabana Azmi Alexa Morden Joe Egan Ameet Chana Kavi Raz
'The Black Prince' is a story of Queen Victoria and the Last King of Punjab, Maharajah Duleep Singh. His character as it evolves, torn between two cultures and facing constant dilemmas as a result. His relationship with Queen Victoria will be the most impactful relationship in the film, the Queen representing the English culture he was drawn into. The Black Prince begins a lifelong struggle to ... See full summary »
Drama
Canada|UK
2012
148 Minutes
Naseem
Satya Bhabha Shahana Goswami Rajat Kapoor Shabana Azmi Ronit Roy Siddharth Seema Biswas Shriya Saran Kulbhushan Kharbanda
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A pair of children, born within moments of India gaining independence from Britain, grow up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation.
Drama
India
1981
100 Minutes
Meenakshi Verma
Jeetendra Rekha Nazneen Shabana Azmi Asrani Mazhar Khan Agha Jagdish Raj
Sadhana (Rekha) and Ramkumar (Jeetendra) are a married couple. Their marriage gets into troubled waters when Sadhana starts to suspect that Ramkumar is having an affair. Sadhana does not ... See full summary »
Romance
India
2013
147 Minutes
Chaudhari Devi
Pankaj Kapur Imran Khan Anushka Sharma Shabana Azmi Arya Babbar
Harry is an industrialist who loves his daughter Bijlee, and the bond they share with Harry's man friday, Matru. Bijlee's plan to wed the son of a politician, however, brings twists and turns in the lives of Matru, Bijlee and Mandola.
Drama
India
2006
189 Minutes
Khanum
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Abhishek Bachchan Sunil Shetty Shabana Azmi
J.P. Dutta's adaption of the Urdu novel "Umrao Jan Ada" by Mirza Haadi Ruswa (1905).
Drama
UK|Canada
1988
121 Minutes
Sushila Sen
Shirley MacLaine Navin Chowdhry Peggy Ashcroft Twiggy Shabana Azmi Leigh Lawson Geoffrey Bayldon Lee Montague
pianist instructor mother protégé cheeky heartwarming inspiring london apartment concert hall music mentorship talent adolescence race relations family growing up rise underdog 1980s
Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When Manek's single mother's business fails, he must make a career decision.
Crime, Drama
India
1980
120 Minutes
Kiran
Shatrughan Sinha Vinod Mehra Waheeda Rehman Reena Roy Shabana Azmi Pran Amjad Khan
Abandoned by his biological mother at the time of his birth, Rajesh is brought up by Rai saheb, who also has a son of his own, Vikram. Years later, Rajesh has grown up to be a police ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama, Action
India
1982
161 Minutes
Kamini
Rajesh Khanna Mithun Chakraborty Zeenat Aman Parveen Babi Shabana Azmi Amrish Puri Ramesh Deo Jeevan Satyendra Kapoor
Honest and dedicated Police Inspector Kumar Chandra Singh intercepts a bank robbery, and is in the process of arresting the bank robbers, when he himself becomes a suspect, and is ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
1978
164 Minutes
Geeta
Sanjeev Kumar Jeetendra Vinod Mehra Moushumi Chatterjee Shabana Azmi Tanuja Raj Mehra Shammi
Drama
USA|UK|Qatar
2012
128 Minutes
Ammi
Riz Ahmed Liev Schreiber Kate Hudson Kiefer Sutherland Om Puri Shabana Azmi Haluk Bilginer Martin Donovan Nelsan Ellis Adil Hussain Christopher Nicholas Smith
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A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.
Comedy, Drama
1977
184 Minutes
Laxmi
Vinod Khanna Rishi Kapoor Amitabh Bachchan Neetu Singh Parveen Babi Shabana Azmi Nirupa Roy Pran Jeevan Kamal Kapoor Nasir Hussain
Separated as children, three brothers (Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan) reunite by coincidence and band together to rescue one's girlfriend.
Adventure, Drama
2007
110 Minutes
Hansal Mehta Sudhir Mishra Sanjay Gupta Arbaaz Khan Mandira Bedi Sudhanshu Pandey Jimmy Sheirgill Masumeh Makhija
A collection of 10 stories includes "Matrimony," "Pooranmasi," "Rice Plate" and "Strangers in the Night."