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Shabana Azmi decided to ‘quit’ films after being humiliated by dance master: ‘I started crying, walked barefoot to my house’ | Bollywood News

Shabana Azmi decided to ‘quit’ films after being humiliated by dance master: ‘I started crying, walked barefoot to my house’ | Bollywood News

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Veteran actor Shabana Azmi has worked in several mainstream Bollywood films, including Manmohan Desai’s 1977 action drama Parvarish. In a recent interview, she recalled the time she felt humiliated in her acting career that she wanted to quit the industry. Shabana spoke about how on the sets of Parvarish, she was called out by dance master Kamal in front of hundreds of junior artists, because she couldn’t dance. In a conversation with Filmfare, the actor recalled, “In a scene from Parvarish, I had told Kamal master that I don’t know how to dance, please make us rehearsal. He said that there’s nothing to do, sirf taali bajaana hai (you only have to clap). I had guns in both my hands, one was in the air, and the other one on my waist. Even before I could understand if I should put my right foot forward or left, Neetu already did two perfect rehearsals.” “So, very meekly I said, ‘Its very difficult for me Master ji, aap zara change karsakte hain kya?’ He said, ‘Lights off, …

Shabana Azmi says she saw Parveen Babi ‘going mad in front of my eyes’: ‘She was struggling, said the chandelier was going to fall on her’ | Bollywood News

Shabana Azmi says she saw Parveen Babi ‘going mad in front of my eyes’: ‘She was struggling, said the chandelier was going to fall on her’ | Bollywood News

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Actor Shabana Azmi and Parveen Babi became popular in Bollywood around the same time and got to work with each other in films like Amar Akbar Anthony and Jwalamukhi. Parveen was a mainstream star and while she was starting to enjoy her stardom, she was also learning to deal with her mental health problems. At the time, the world around her wasn’t equipped to help her in the right way so many of her contemporaries, could not make sense of what she was going through. In a recent interview, Shabana recalled the time when she worked with Parveen and how she started observing some changes in her. In an appearance on Filmfare’s YouTube channel, Shabana said, “I saw Parveen Babi going mad in front of my eyes. We were doing a Prakash Mehra film, Jwalamukhi, and we were on the set, and she suddenly looked to the chandelier and started screaming, ‘This chandelier is going to fall on me.’ Even on the sets of Ashanti, I saw that she was eating very little. She used …

Shabana Azmi says people ‘flung mud’ at her for marrying Javed Akhtar: ‘I stamped over Honey Irani’s rights for my own happiness’ | Bollywood News

Shabana Azmi says people ‘flung mud’ at her for marrying Javed Akhtar: ‘I stamped over Honey Irani’s rights for my own happiness’ | Bollywood News

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Javed Akhtar, who was married to Honey Irani for about 13 years, divorced her in 1985 and went on to marry Shabana Azmi. However, Shabana’s fans were quite disappointed in her and in a recent interview, Shabana said that her fans in right in feeling so. Her fans felt that she was “stamping over” Honey Irani’s rights by marrying the veteran lyricist. Back then, Shabana, Javed and Honey stayed silent on the subject but the people “flung mud” at Shabana. In a recent conversation with Filmfare, Shabana shared people’s disappointment in her was fair. She explained, “It was fair because I was this feminist model and I had done something that was inexplicable. It was like everything I had said, I was stamping over another woman’s rights for my own happiness. I think people who followed me as a feminist had every right to feel that.” While her followers were extremely upset with her, Shabana decided staying quiet on this would be a wiser decision than trying to give an explanation. She shared, “What I …

Farah Khan, Vidya Balan, Dia Mirza, Urmila Matondkar celebrate ‘living legend’ Shabana Azmi’s ‘50th birthday’. See posts | Bollywood

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Farah Khan, Vidya Balan, Dia Mirza, Urmila Matondkar, Richa Chadha, Shibani Dandekar, Ali Fazal and Tanvi Azmi, among other celebrities, celebrated Shabana Azmi‘s 70th birthday on Wednesday evening. Taking to Instagram, several of them shared pictures and videos from the party. (Also Read | Shabana Azmi says society makes you feel ‘incomplete’ if you can’t have children) Celebs attended Shabana Azmi’s birthday party in Mumbai. Farah shares funny video from party Farah Khan posted a video in which she pointed her camera towards a decorated flower piece which read ’50’. Giving a glimpse of it and then at Shabana, she said, “We are at the 50th birthday of living legend none other than Shabana Azmi. 50th birthday really?” Urmila Matondkar joined in and added, “50th? This is your 50th?” Vidya Balan joined them and said, “No, no. 40th na?” Both of them hugged Shabana and wished her on her special day. Sharing the video, Farah wrote, “Here with 2 of the best dancers in Bollywood!! @azmishabana18 n @balanvidya .. n oh.. there s also @urmilamatondkarofficial …