Tenacious Tabu @43
For Tabu, one of Bollywood's most versatile and respected actresses, it's been a long and glittering journey from her Bollywood debut opposite an ageing Dev Anand in Hum Naujawan to her recent success with Haider. As she celebrates her 43rd birthday, we take a look at her life and times.
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Actress Tabu has carved a niche for herself in Bollywood with her intense and versatile performances. The much talented actress commands respect with her powerful performances on-screen, right from her Bollywood debut opposite Dev Anand in Hum Naujawan to her recent cricitically acclaimed performance in Haider. As she celebrates her 43rd birthday, we take a look at her life and times.
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1996 was a good year for Tabu with the release of Saajan Chale Sasural, Himmat, Tu Chor Main Sipahi, Jeet – for which she was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – and the acclaimed Maachis, directed by Gulzar. Tabu's performance as a young Punjabi woman who becomes a terrorist won her the National Award for Best Actress.
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In 1997 came the superhit Virasat opposite Anil Kapoor. Tabu's performance as a village belle was singled out for praise and earned her the Critics' Choice Filmfare Award for Best Actress. The same year, she appeared in Kalpana Lajmi's acclaimed Darmiyan, ensemble film Border and made a small but impressive outing in Mani Ratnam's Iruvar, the film in which beauty queen Aishwarya Rai made her debut.
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One of Tabu's best known films is Astitva (2000), in which she played an ageing wife who is rejected by her husband after it is revealed that their son is the product of an affair she had when young. Tabu was the Critics' Choice for Best Actress at the Filmfare Awards again. Astitva was praised for dealing with the topics of infidelity and divorce without standing in judgement.