The actress is a two-time National Award winner and has also received the Padma Shri for her contributions to Indian cinema. Published: November 4, 2024 7:20 AM IST By She is the most accomplished actress of Bollywood who is known to play a troubled women in mainstream and independent cinema. With two National Film Awards and a Padma Shri Award, she won our hearts with her roles in and Do you know, this actress never wanted to become an actress as she was into studies but Dev Anand insisted her to work in the movies.
She got her first role as a teenager in 1985’s Hum Naujawan. She got her break with Ajay Devgn in 1994’s Vijaypath. The actress we are talking about belongs to a Hyderabadi Muslim family.
She did not get the love of her father in her childhood. Actually, when she was three, her parents got divorced. After this, her mother took full responsibility of her and her sister.
We are talking about Tabu, who in an interview to Simmi Garewal had said, “I had a great childhood, we lived in Hyderabad all our lives, I lived with my grandparents (mother’s parents) after my parents divorced. My mum was a teacher and so I ended up spending more time with her mother, and my grandmother would pray and read books, and I grew up with that. I was very timid, I did not have a voice, in fact, even after becoming a heroine, an actor, I did not have a voice.
” Tabu often goes with her name Tabassum Fatima and has not taken her father’s surname -Hashmi. She said “I have no me.