Tabu filmography
Indian actress Tabu, also credited as Tabbu, has appeared in Hindi, Telugu, English, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali films. Tabu's first credited role came as a teenager in Dev Anand's Hum Naujawan (1985), and her first major role was in the Telugu film Coolie No. 1 (1991).[1][2] In 1994, she starred in two Hindi films—the romance Pehla Pehla Pyar and the action drama Vijaypath—and received the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for the latter.[3] After appearing in a series of poorly received films, including Prem and Saajan Ki Baahon Mein (both 1995), the year 1996 was key for Tabu.[4] Her performance as a young woman affected by the Punjab insurgency in Gulzar's Maachis (1996) proved to be a breakthrough for her, and won her the National Film Award for Best Actress.[4][5] Also that year, Tabu won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu for the romance Ninne Pelladata, and featured alongside Govinda and Karisma Kapoor in the commercially successful comedy film Saajan Chale Sasural.[6][7]
Tabu had a brief role in the war film Border, the highest-grossing Hindi film of 1997, and portrayed a village girl opposite Anil Kapoor in the Priyadarshan-directed drama Virasat.[8][9] Among her 1999 releases were two of the top-grossing Bollywood films of the year—the comedy Biwi No.1, and the family drama Hum Saath-Saath Hain.[10] She also starred as the rebellious daughter of a corrupt politician in Gulzar's Hu Tu Tu (1999).[11] The film garnered positive reviews from critics but performed poorly at the box office.[12] The following year, she starred in Kandukondain Kandukondain, a Tamil adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility, and played a submissive homemaker in the bilingual drama Astitva.[13][14] Tabu garnered a second National Film Award for Best Actress for portraying a bar dancer in Madhur Bhandarkar's crime drama Chandni Bar (2001).[15][16] In 2003, she starred in the Bengali film Abar Aranye, and portrayed Nimmi, a character based on Lady Macbeth, in Maqbool—an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth from director Vishal Bhardwaj.[17][18] Her other releases of 2003—the erotic thriller Hawa and the action drama Jaal: The Trap—were commercial failures.[19] The following year, Tabu played triple roles in M. F. Husain's musical drama Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities.[20]
The year 2006 saw Tabu star in her first international project—the Mira Nair-directed adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Namesake.[14][21] Also that year, she played a brief role in the romantic thriller Fanaa.[14] In R. Balki's Cheeni Kum (2007), Tabu starred alongside Amitabh Bachchan as a woman romantically involved with a much older man;[15] the role earned her a record fourth Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.[lower-alpha 1][23][24] Tabu took on fewer film projects over the next few years.[25] She played a prostitute in the Telugu film Pandurangadu (2008) and appeared briefly in Ang Lee's adventure film Life of Pi (2012).[26][27] In 2014, Tabu starred alongside Salman Khan in Jai Ho, and garnered critical acclaim for playing Ghazala Meer, a character based on Gertrude in Bhardwaj's adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, entitled Haider.[28][29] She won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter.[30] Tabu went on to garner praise for playing a senior police-officer in the thriller Drishyam (2015) and a character based on Miss Havisham in the drama Fitoor (2016).[31][32]
Filmography
Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Title | Year | Role(s) | Language | Director(s) | Notes | Ref(s) |
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Bazaar | 1982 | — | Hindi | Sagar Sarhadi | Uncredited | [1] |
Hum Naujawan | 1985 | Priya | Hindi | Dev Anand | [1] [33] |
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Coolie No. 1 | 1991 | Ranjani | Telugu | K. Raghavendra Rao | [34] [35] |
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Mashooq | 1992 | Unknown | Hindi | Mirza Brothers | [36] [37] |
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Pehla Pehla Pyar | 1994 | Sapna | Hindi | Manmohan Singh | [38] | |
Vijaypath | 1994 | Mohini | Hindi | Farouq Siddiqui | Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut | [3] [39] |
Prem | 1995 | Lachi / Sonya Jetley[lower-alpha 2] | Hindi | Satish Kaushik | [41] | |
Saajan Ki Baahon Mein | 1995 | Kavita | Hindi | Jai Prakash | [42] | |
Sisindri | 1995 | — | Telugu | Shiva Nageswara Rao | Special appearance | [43] |
Haqeeqat | 1995 | Sudha | Hindi | Sandesh Kohli | [44] | |
Himmat | 1996 | Anju | Hindi | Sunil Sharma | [45] | |
Kadhal Desam | 1996 | Divya | Tamil | Kathir | [46] | |
Tu Chor Main Sipahi | 1996 | Kajal | Hindi | Guddu Dhanoa | [47] | |
Jeet | 1996 | Tulsi | Hindi | Raj Kanwar | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress | [48] [49] |
Kaalapani | 1996 | Parvathi | Malayalam | Priyadarshan | [4] | |
Maachis | 1996 | Veerandra (Veeran) | Hindi | Gulzar | National Film Award for Best Actress Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress |
[5] [50] [51] |
Saajan Chale Sasural | 1996 | Divya Khurana | Hindi | David Dhawan | [52] | |
Ninne Pelladata | 1996 | Mahalakshmi | Telugu | Pasupuleti Krishna Vamsi | Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu | [6] [53] |
Darmiyaan: In Between | 1997 | Chitra | Hindi | Kalpana Lajmi | [54] | |
Virasat | 1997 | Gehna | Hindi | Priyadarshan | Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress |
[55] [22] [56] |
Border | 1997 | Kuldeep's wife | Hindi | J. P. Dutta | [57] | |
Iruvar | 1997 | Senthamarai | Tamil | Mani Ratnam | [58] | |
Chachi 420 | 1997 | Janki Paswan | Hindi | Kamal Haasan | [59] | |
Thaayin Manikodi | 1998 | Rani | Tamil | Arjun Sarja | [60] | |
Aavida Maa Aavide | 1998 | Archana | Telugu | E. V. V. Satyanarayana | [61] | |
2001: Do Hazaar Ek | 1998 | Billu | Hindi | Raj N. Sippy | [62] | |
Hu Tu Tu | 1999 | Panna | Hindi | Gulzar | Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress |
[11] [63] [64] |
Biwi No.1 | 1999 | Lovely | Hindi | David Dhawan | [65] | |
Kohram | 1999 | Inspector Kiran Patkar | Hindi | Mehul Kumar | [66] | |
Hanuman | 1999 | Anja | English | Fred Fougea | [67] | |
Hum Saath-Saath Hain | 1999 | Sadhana | Hindi | Sooraj R. Barjatya | [68] | |
Thakshak | 1999 | Suman Dev | Hindi | Govind Nihalani | [69] | |
Hera Pheri | 2000 | Anuradha Shivshankar Panikar | Hindi | Priyadarshan | [70] | |
Kandukondain Kandukondain | 2000 | Sowmya | Tamil | Rajiv Menon | [71] | |
Tarkieb | 2000 | Roshni Choubey | Hindi | Esmayeel Shroff | [72] | |
Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar | 2000 | Kamya Lal | Hindi | Hansal Mehta | [73] | |
Shikari | 2000 | Suman | Hindi | N. Chandra | [74] | |
Astitva | 2000 | Aditi Pandit | Hindi / Marathi[lower-alpha 3] |
Mahesh Manjrekar | Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress |
[76] [77] [78] |
Ghaath | 2000 | Kavita Choudhary | Hindi | Akashdeep | [79] | |
Snegithiye | 2000 | ACP Gayatri | Tamil | Priyadarshan | [80] | |
Cover Story | 2000 | Jasmine Khan | Malayalam | G.S. Vijayan | [81] | |
Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya | 2001 | Roshni Batra | Hindi | Rajat Rawail | [82] | |
Chandni Bar | 2001 | Mumtaz | Hindi | Madhur Bhandarkar | National Film Award for Best Actress Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress |
[3] [16] [83] |
Aamdani Atthani Kharcha Rupaiyaa | 2001 | Meena | Hindi | K. Raghavendra Rao | [84] | |
Maa Tujhhe Salaam | 2002 | Captain Sonia Khanna | Hindi | Tinu Verma | [85] | |
Filhaal... | 2002 | Rewa Singh | Hindi | Meghna Gulzar | [86] | |
Chennakesava Reddy | 2002 | Devi | Telugu | V. V. Vinayak | [87] | |
Zindagi Khoobsoorat Hai | 2002 | Shalu | Hindi | Manoj Punj | [88] | |
Saathiya | 2002 | Savithri Rao | Hindi | Shaad Ali | Special appearance | [89] [90] |
Abar Aranye | 2003 | Amrita | Bengali | Goutam Ghose | [91] | |
Khanjar: The Knife | 2003 | Shilpa | Hindi | Chander Sharma | [92] | |
Hawa | 2003 | Sanjana | Hindi | Guddu Dhanoa | [93] | |
Jaal: The Trap | 2003 | Neha Pandit | Hindi | Guddu Dhanoa | [94] | |
Maqbool | 2003 | Nimmi | Hindi | Vishal Bhardwaj | [95] | |
Main Hoon Na | 2004 | — | Hindi | Farah Khan | Uncredited | [96] |
Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities | 2004 | Meenaxi / Maria Zarkova[lower-alpha 4] | Hindi | M. F. Husain | [20] | |
Bhagmati | 2005 | Bhagmati | Hindi | Ashok Kaul | [97] [98] |
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Andarivaadu | 2005 | Shanthi | Telugu | Srinu Vytla | [99] | |
Silsiilay | 2005 | Rehana | Hindi | Khalid Mohamed | [100] | |
Shock | 2006 | Gita | Telugu | Harish Shankar | [101] | |
Fanaa | 2006 | Malini Tyagi | Hindi | Kunal Kohli | [102] | |
The Namesake | 2006 | Ashima | English | Mira Nair | Indian-American film | [103] |
Sarhad Paar | 2007 | Pammi | Hindi | Raman Kumar | [104] | |
Rakkilippattu | 2007 | ACP Gayatri Varma | Malayalam | Priyadarshan | [105] | |
Cheeni Kum | 2007 | Nina Verma | Hindi | R. Balki | Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress | [23] [106] |
Om Shanti Om | 2007 | Herself | Hindi | Farah Khan | Cameo appearance in song "Deewangi Deewangi" | [107] [108] |
Idi Sangathi | 2008 | Swarajyalakshmi | Telugu | Chandra Siddhartha | [109] | |
Pandurangadu | 2008 | Amrutha | Telugu | K. Raghavendra Rao | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu | [110] [111] |
Toh Baat Pakki! | 2010 | Rajeshwari Saxena | Hindi | Kedar Shinde | [112] | |
Khuda Kasam | 2010 | Neetu Singh | Hindi | K. C. Bokadia | [113] | |
Urumi | 2011 | — | Malayalam | Santosh Sivan | Special appearance | [27] [114] |
Life of Pi | 2012 | Gita Patel | English | Ang Lee | American film | [115] |
David | 2013 | Frenny | Hindi | Bejoy Nambiar | [116] | |
David | 2013 | Frenny | Tamil | Bejoy Nambiar | [117] | |
Jai Ho | 2014 | Geeta Agnihotri | Hindi | Sohail Khan | [118] | |
Haider | 2014 | Ghazala Meer | Hindi | Vishal Bhardwaj | Also playback singer for song "Roshe Valle" Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress |
[30] [119] [120] |
Drishyam | 2015 | Meera Deshmukh | Hindi | Nishikant Kamat | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress | [121] [122] |
Talvar | 2015 | Reema Kumar | Hindi | Meghna Gulzar | Guest appearance | [123] [124] |
Fitoor | 2016 | Begum Hazrat Jaan | Hindi | Abhishek Kapoor | [125] | |
Missing | TBA | TBA | Hindi | Manoj Abhyankar | Post-production Also playback singer for song "Soja Re" |
[126] [127] |
See also
Footnotes
References
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External links
- Tabu at the Internet Movie Database
- Tabu on Bollywood Hungama