5 National Award-winningShabana Azmi Films You Must Watch
Ankur
For her debut film, Shabana played a married village woman who ends up getting invoved with another man from upper caste.
Arth
In this semi-autobiographical film, Shabana played a woman trying to find her identity following her husband's extramarital affair with an actress.
Khandar
Shabana played a lonely, heartbroken woman who stays with her mother amid ruins in a village.
Paar
In this film exploring poverty and exploitation in rural Bihar, Shabana played the pregnant wife of a labourer.
Godmother
Shabana played real-life gangster turned politician Santokben Jadeja, who ran the mafia operations in Porbandar, Gujarat, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.