Tabu

Personal Info

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Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1971-11-04 (54 years old)

Place of Birth

Hyderabad, India

Tabu

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.

Acting

2003

2023

Khufiya

as Krishna "KM" Mehra

2002

Saathiya

as Savitri Rao

2003

Maqbool

as Nimmi

2001

Chandni Bar

as Mumtaz P. Sawant

2000

Hera Pheri

as Anuradha Shivshankar Panikar

2006

Fanaa

as Nafisa Ali Begum

1996

Kadhal Desam

as Divya

1997

Border

as Kuldip Singh's wife

2004

Main Hoon Na

as Special Appearance

1999

Hum Saath Saath Hain

as Sadhna Sharma Chaturvedi

2007

Cheeni Kum

as Nina Verma

2006

The Namesake

as Ashima Ganguli

2010

Toh Baat Pakki!

as Rajeshwari

1999

Thakshak

as Suman Dev

1998

Hanuman

as Anja

2012

Life of Pi

as Gita Patel

2000

Astitva

as Aditi Pandit

1994

Vijaypath

as Mohini "Mona"

1996

Jeet

as Tulsibai

1998

2005

Andarivaadu

as Shanthi

2011

Urumi

as Dancing woman (cameo)

1997

Chachi 420

as Janki Paswan

2023

Bholaa

as IPS Diana Joseph

1996

Ninne Pelladatha

as Mahalakshmi/Pandu

2013

David

as Frenny

1999

Biwi No.1

as Lovely Khuranna

1997

Virasat

as Gehna

2005

Silsiilay

as Rehana

2014

Jai Ho

as Geeta Agnihotri

1996

Kaalapani

as Parvathi

1991

Coolie No. 1

as Ranjani

2006

Shock

as Geeta

2008

Idhi Sangathi

as Swarajyalakshmi

2008

Pandurangadu

as Amrita

2014

Haider

as Ghazala Meer

2006

Phir Hera Pheri

as Anuradaha (archive footage)

1995

Haqeeqat

as Sudha Ravi Malhotra

2000

2022

Drishyam 2

as IG Meera Deshmukh

1996

Maachis

as Virender Kaur a.k.a. Veeran

1999

Hu Tu Tu

as Panna Barve

2024

Crew

as Geeta Sethi

2010

Khuda Kasam

as Neetu Singh

2015

Drishyam

as IG Meera Deshmukh

2003

Hawa

as Sanjana

2001

Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya

as Roshni Batra

2003

Jaal: The Trap

as Neha Pandit/Nusrat Rabbani

2015

Talvar

as Reema Kumar

1995

Sisindri

as Tabu

2016

Fitoor

as Begum Hazrat Jaan

1997

Iruvar

as Senthamarai

1999

Kohram

as Insp. Kiran Patekar

2000

Ghaath

as Kavita Chaudhary

2013

David

as Frenny

2000

Snegithiye

as ACP Gayathri

1996

Tu Chor Main Sipahi

as Kajal Singh

1994

2017

Golmaal Again

as Anna Mathew

2018

Missing

as Aparna Dubey a.k.a. Mrs. Dubey

2002

Maa Tujhhe Salaam

as Captain Sonia Khanna

2006

Sarhad Paar

as Pammi

2018

Andhadhun

as Simi Sinha

2018

Sanju

as Herself (Cameo) (uncredited)

2019

De De Pyaar De

as Manjana "Manju" Rao

2019

Bharat

as Meher

1996

1998

2020

1998

Meri Zindagi Ek Agneepath

as Special Appearance

2022

Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2

as Manjulika/Anjulika

2002

1982

1985

Hum Naujawan

as Priya

2007

2023

Kuttey

as Pammi/Poonam Sandhu

1995

Prem

as Lachi / Sonya Jaitley

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