TABU PROFILE

Name: Tabu
Birth Name: Tabassum Hashmi
Birth Date: November 4, 1970
Birth Place: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Sex: F
Height: 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Nationality: Indian
Profession: Actress
Father:Jamal Hashmi
Mother: Rizwana
Sister: Farha {Actress}
Aunt: Shabana Azmi

Biography:

Tabu (born Tabassum Hashmi on November 4, 1970) is an Indian actress. Largely considered one of the Indian film industry's best actresses working today, Tabu "Tabassum Hashmi" (born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh) has won the coveted National Film Award for Best Actress twice - once for Maachis (1996) and most recently for Chandni Bar (2002). She has also won three statuettes in the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance category for Virasat (1997), Hu Tu Tu (1999), and Astitva (2000) respectively and in 1995 she was awarded with the Filmfare Best Debut Award
Despite a few exceptions, Tabu is known best for her willingness to play characters in artistic, low-budget films that go on to garner more critical appreciation than they do substantial box office figures (such as in Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities or Maqbool). She has acted in a number of Telugu movies, many of them very successful, such as Coolie No. 1, Ninne Pelladatha etc. She is the niece of Shabana Azmi and the younger sister of actress Farha. In 2006 she starred alongside Kajol and Aamir Khan in Kunal Kohli's latest film, Fanaa. She is the life member of International Film And Television Club of Asian Academy Of Film & Television,Noida.


Tabu Awards and Achievements :

Awards of the International Indian Film Academy
2002: Won Popular Award for Actress in a Leading Role for: Chandni Bar (2001)

Zee Cine Awards
2002: Won Popular Award for Best Actress for: Chandni Bar (2001)

National Film Awards, India
2002: Won Silver Lotus Award for Best Actress for: Chandni Bar (2001)
1997 Won Silver Lotus Award for Best Actress for: Maachis (1996)

Screen Weekly Awards
2001: Won Screen Award for Best Actress for: Astitva (2000)
Filmfare Awards

2001: Won Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Critics for: Astitva (2000)
2000: Won Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Critics for: Hu Tu Tu (1999)
1998: Won Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Critics for: Virasat (1997)
1995: Won Filmfare Award for Best Newcomer

Filmography:

Chandralekha
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Tabu and Mahima Chaudhry
Director: Priyadarshan

Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai
Director: Ravi Chopra
Cast: Tabu, Govinda, Lara Dutta, Rajpal Yadav, Boman Irani, Satish Shah

Cheeni Kum
Director: R. Balki
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Tabu, Paresh Rawal, Zohra Sehgal

Dilruba
Cast: Irfan Khan, Tabu, Vivek Oberoi and Waheeda Rehman
Director:

Sarhad Paar
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Tabu and Mahima Chaudhry
Director: Raman Kumar

The Namesake
Cast: Tabu, Irfan Khan, Kal Penn and Zuleikha Robinson
Director: Mira Nair

Phir Hera Pheri
Cast: Paresh Rawal, Diya Mirza and Tabu
Director: Neeraj Vora
Fanaa
Cast: Aamir Khan, Kajol and Tabu
Director: Kunal Kohli

Shock [Telugu]
Cast: Jyothika, Srinivasa Rao Kota, Tabu and Ravi Teja
Director: Harish Shankar

Bhagmati
Cast: Tabu, Milind Soman and Hema Malini
Director: Ashok Kaul

Silsiilay
Cast: Tabu, Bhoomika Chawla and Shahrukh Khan
Director: Khalid Mohamed

Main Hoon Na
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Sunil Shetty, Sushmita Sen and Tabu
Director: Farah Khan

Meenaxi Tale of 3 Cities
Cast: Tabu, Kunal Kapoor, Raghuvir Yadav and Sharat Saxena
Director: M.F. Hussain

Maqbool
Cast: Irfan Khan, Om Puri, Tabu and Naseeruddin Shah
Director: Vishal Bharadwaj

Jaal The Trap
Cast: Sunny Deol, Tabu and Anupam Kher
Director: Guddu Dhanoa

Hawa
Cast: Tabu, Shahbaaz Khan and Mukesh Tiwari
Director: Guddu Dhanoa

Khanjar - The Knife
Cast: Sunil Shetty, Tabu, Pankaj Dheer and Gulshan Grover
Director: Chander Sharma

Abar Aranye
Cast: Samit Bhanja, Soumitra Chatterjee and Tabu
Director: Goutam Ghose
Saathiya
Cast: Rani Mukherjee, Vivek Oberoi, Tanuja and Satish Shah
Director: Shaad Ali

Zindagi Khoobsoorat Hai
Cast: Gurdas Mann, Tabu and Ashish Vidyarthi
Director: Manoj Punj

Filhaal...
Cast: Tabu, Sushmita Sen, Sanjay Suri and Akash Khurana
Director: Meghna Gulzar


Maa Tujhhe Salaam
Cast: Sunny Deol, Tabu, Arbaaz Khan and Tinnu Verma
Director: Tinnu Verma

Aamdani Atthanni Kharcha Rupaiya
Cast: Govinda, Juhi Chawla, Tabu and Chandrachur Singh
Director: K. Raghavendra Rao

Chandni Bar
Cast: Tabu, Atul Kulkarni and Vinay Apte
Director: Madhur Bhandarkar

Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya
Cast: Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Tabu, Govinda and Pooja Batra
Director: Rajat Rawail

Ghaath
Cast: Manoj Bajpai, Tabu and Om Puri
Director: Akashdeep
Astitva
Cast: Tabu, Sachin Khedekar and Mohnish Bahl
Director: Mahesh Manjrekar

Shikari
Cast: Govinda, Tabu and Karisma Kapoor
Director: N. Chandra

Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!!
Cast: Manoj Bajpai and Tabu
Director: Hansal Mehta

Tarkieb
Cast: Nana Patekar, Tabu and Shilpa Shetty
Director: Esmayeel Shroff

Kandukondain Kandukondain
Cast: Mammootty, Ajith, Aishwarya Rai and tabu
Director: Rajiv Menon

Andarivaadu [Telugu]
Cast: Chiranjeevi, Tabu and Rimi Sen
Director: Srinu Vytla

Hera Pheri
Cast: Paresh Rawal, Sunil Shetty, Akshay Kumar and Tabu
Director: Priyadarshan

Biwi No. 2 [Telugu]
Cast: Nagarjuna Akkineni, and Tabu
Director: Satyanarayana

Cover Story [Malayalam]
Cast: Suresh Gopi, Biju Menon and Tabu
Director: G.S. Vijayan

Snegithiye Tamil
Cast: Jyothika, Sharbani Mukherji and Tabu
Director: Priyadarshan

Thakshak
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Tabu and Amrish Puri
Director: Govind Nihalani

Kohram
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Nana Patekar and Tabu
Director: Mehul Kumar

Biwi No. 1
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor and Tabu
Director: David Dhawan

Hu Tu Tu
Cast: Nana Patekar, Sunil Shetty and Tabu
Director: Sampooran Singh GulzarHum Saath-Saath Hain-We Stand United
Cast: Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor and Tabu
Director: Sooraj R. Barjatya

Hanuman
Cast: Robert Cavanah and Tabu
Director: Fred Fougea

Do Hazaar Ek
Cast: Jackie Shroff, Dimple Kapadia and Tabu
Director: Raj N. Sippy

Aavida Maa Aavide [Telugu]
Cast: Nagarjuna Akkineni, Tabu and Heera Rajgopal
Director: Satyanarayana E.V.V.

Chachi 420
Cast: Kamal Hassan, Amrish Puri and Tabu
Director: Kamal Hassan

Iruvar
Cast: Mohanlal, Tabu, Prakash Raj and Aishwarya Rai
Director: Mani Ratnam

Border
Cast: Rakhee Gulzar, Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff, Sunil Shetty, Tabu and Pooja Bhatt
Director: J.P. Dutta

Darmiyan
Cast: Kiron Kher, Tabu and Shahbaaz Khan
Director: Kalpana Lazmi

Virasat
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Tabu and Pooja Batra
Director: Priyadarshan

Maachis
Cast: Om Puri, Tabu and Chandrachur Singh
Director: Sampooran Singh Gulzar

Ninne Pelladatha [Telugu]
Cast: Nagarjuna Akkineni, Giribabu, Tabu and Chandramohan
Director: Krishna Vamshi

Jeet
Cast: Sunny Deol, Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor and Tabu
Director: Raj Kanwar

Tu Chor Main Sipahi
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan and Tabu
Director: Guddu Dhanoa

Himmat
Cast: Sudesh Berry, Sunny Deol and Gulshan Grover
Director: Sunil Sharma

Kadhal Desam [Tamil]
Cast: Abbas, Balasubramaniam S.P., Vineeth and Tabu
Director: Kathir

Kala Pani
Cast: Mohanlal, Prabhu and Tabu
Director: Priyadarshan

Saajan Chale Sasural
Cast: Govinda, Karisma Kapoor and Tabu
Director: David Dhawan

Haqeeqat
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Tabu and Mohan Joshi
Director: Sandesh Kohli

Sisindri [Telugu]
Cast: Nagarjuna Akkineni, Tabu, Sarathbabu and Giribabu
Director: Siva Nageshwara Rao

Saajan Ki Baahon Mein
Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Raveena Tandon and Tabu
Director: Jay Prakash

Prem
Cast: Sanjay Kapoor, Tabu and Amrish Puri
Director: Satish Kaushik

Vijaypath
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Tabu and Suresh Oberoi
Director: Farogh Siddique

Pehla Pehla Pyaar
Cast: Gulshan Grover, Rishi Kapoor, Kader Khan and Tabu
Director: Manmohan Singh

Mashooq
Cast: Ayub Khan, Ayesha Jhulka and Tabu
Director: Humayun Mirza

Coolie No. 1[Telugu]
Cast: Tabu and Venkatesh
Director: K. Raghavendra Rao

Hum Naujawan
Cast: Dev Anand, Tabu, Bunty Behl and Richa Sharma
Director: 1984


Music Department:

1. Ghaath (2000) (playback singer)

Self:

1. The 17th Annual Gotham Awards (2007) (TV) .... Herself
2. Om Shanti Om (2007) .... Herself
3. 49th Manikchand Filmfare Awards 2003 (2004) (TV) .... Herself - Presenter
4. Bollywood Bound (2001) (uncredited) .... Herself
5. Bongo Beat (1996) .... Hotel Receptionist
Archive Footage:

1. New délire (2007) .... Paula
2. "Koffee with Karan"