5 National Award-winning Shabana Azmi Films You Must Watch

Producer: Priyanka Das Editor: Nisha Dubey

Ankur

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For her debut film, Shabana played a married village woman who ends up getting invoved with another man from upper caste.

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Arth

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In this semi-autobiographical film, Shabana played a woman trying to find her identity following her husband's extramarital affair with an actress.

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Khandar

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Shabana played a lonely, heartbroken woman who stays with her mother amid ruins in a village.

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Paar

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In this film exploring poverty and exploitation in rural Bihar, Shabana played the pregnant wife of a labourer.

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Godmother

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Shabana played real-life gangster turned politician Santokben Jadeja, who ran the mafia operations in Porbandar, Gujarat, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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