Tabu
Acting
Biography
Tabassum Fatima Hashmi (born November 4, 1971), known professionally as Tabu, is an Indian actress known for playing troubled women in both mainstream and independent films of Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, and English languages, although she primarily works in the former. Renowned as one of Hindi cinema's most accomplished actresses, her accolades include two National Film Awards, seven Filmfare Awards, two Filmfare Awards South, and the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour.
Born: November 4, 1971
Place of Birth: Hyderabad, India
Known For
Zindagi Khoobsoorat Hai
Murad Hussein and Gul Baloch have been enemies for years. Murad would like to propose a truce so that the two families become friends again, and for this occasion he has chosen to marry his brother to Gul's sister. The wedding is arranged and Gul and his family are accordingly invited. Gul does attend the wedding, bless the couple, and when night came, he and his accomplices brutally kill every male in the household, including his very own brother-in-law. Gul's sister loses her sanity, and is taken back home, where he lives with his daughter...
Drishyam 2
7 years after the case related to Vijay Salgaonkar and his family was closed, a series of unexpected events bring truth to light that threatens to change everything for the Salgaonkars. Can Vijay save his family this time?
Kaalapani
Govardhan, a doctor by profession, is wrongly accused of bombing a train and is jailed by the British in Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He witnesses sufferings of hundreds of Indian prisoners there.
Andhadhun
A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.
Drishyam
A simple street-smart man tries to protect his family from a cop looking for her missing son who was accidently killed by his daughter.
Khanjar (The Knife)
Friday the 13th is the night when the dead come back to earth. On one such night, Chander Sharma's son gets a call informing him of the murder of each of his father's four associates on the 13th of every month. Chander Sharma's son is in love with Shilpa (Tabu) and his rival is Raja (Sunil Shetty), who also becomes embroiled in the mystery. The only clue they have is a pair of gloves, leaving the police baffled. Meanwhile, the murders continue...
Talvar
A hardened cop deals with three conflicting perspectives involving a brutal double murder. The case is complicated as the prime suspects are the parents who supposedly killed their teenage daughter.
Iruvar
A fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, continuing the tryst between Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics.
Life of Pi
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Virasat
After completing his studies in London, England, Shakti Thakur returns home to India in a small town where his family resides.
Filmography
as Meera Deshmukh
as Sister Francesca
as Vasudha
as Geeta Sethi
as Krishna "KM" Mehra
as IPS Diana Joseph
as Pammi/Poonam Sandhu
as Meera Deshmukh
as Manjulika/Anjulika
as Saeeda Bai
as Ananya
as Yasu
as Meher
as Manjana "Manju" Rao
as Simi Sinha
as Herself (Cameo) (uncredited)
as Aparna Dubey a.k.a. Mrs. Dubey
as Anna Mathew
as Self
as Self
as Herself
as Self
as Begum Hazrat Jaan
as Herself
as Reema Kumar
as IG Meera Deshmukh
as Ghazala Meer
as Herself
as Geeta Agnihotri
as Self
as Frenny
as Gita Patel
as Special appearance in the song "Aaranne Aarane"
as Neetu Singh
as Rajeshwari
as Herself
as Amrita
as Swarajyalakshmi
as Self
as Nina Verma
as Pammi
as Ashima Ganguli
as Anuradaha (archive footage)
as Dr. Malini Tyagi (Special Appearance)
as Geeta
as Rehana
as Shanthi
as Self
as Self
as Special Appearance
as Neha Pandit/Nusrat Rabbani
as Sanjana
as Shilpa
as Nimmi
as Savitri Rao
as Shalu
as Seeta
as Captain Sonia Khanna
as Meena
as Mumtaz P. Sawant
as Roshni Batra
as Jasmine Khan
as Kavita Chaudhary
as ACP Gayathri
as Aditi Pandit
as Kamya Lal
as Sowmya
as Anuradha Shivshankar Panikar
as Suman Dev
as Sadhna Sharma Chaturvedi
as Insp. Kiran Patekar
as Lovely Khuranna
as Panna Barve
as Anja
as Billu
as Actress
as Janki Paswan
as Surinder "Preeti" Kaur Chandpuri
as Gehna
as Senthamarai
as Chitra
as Virender Kaur a.k.a. Veeran
as Mahalakshmi/Pandu
as Divya
as Tulsibai
as Kajal Singh
as Divya
as Parvathi
as Sudha Ravi Malhotra
as Tabu
as Kavita
as Lachi / Sonya Jaitley
as Mohini "Mona"
as Sapna
as Ranjani
as Priya