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Shabana Azmi's raging controversies

Shabana Azmi

Shabana Azmi is known for her realistic portrayal of characters on the screen.Shabana Azmi has a lot of controversies from playing lesbian charater to having a kiss from South AFrican Nelson Mandela Her father Kaifi Azmi was a famous Indian Urdu poet as well as writer and her mother Shaukat was a renowned stage actress. She is married to Indian poet and screenwriter Javed Akhtar.Azmi has appeared in over 120 Hindi and Bengali films in both mainstream and independent cinema, and since 1988 she has acted in several foreign projects. In addition to acting, Azmi is a social and women's rights activist, a Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA), and a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament.