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Tabu is an Indian female model and film actor who began her work period in 1980. Born in Hyderabad, India, she holds Indian citizenship and speaks Hindi, Bangla, and Malayalam. Her field of work is acting, and she has received the National Film Award for Best Actress, Bollywood Movie Awards, and Filmfare Awards South.
The actress has a sibling named Farah and follows Islam. Physical attributes listed include a height of 1.69 meters, a mass of 65, and black hair. Her name in the native language is written as তাবু.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Time Corps #22
- Cyberfunk!
- Time Corps #21
- Time Corps #20 : Falling Glass Part 4
- Sundering
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Film & TV
Acting · Hyderabad, India
Tabassum Fatima Hashmi (born November 4, 1971), known professionally as Tabu, is an Indian actress known for playing troubled women in both mainstream and independent films of Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, and English languages, although she primarily works in the former. Renowned as one of Hindi cinema's most accomplished actresses, her accolades include two National Film…
Known for
- Bhooth Bangla — Yashoda2026
- Drishyam 3 — Meera Deshmukh2026
- Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha — Vasudha2024
- Crew — Geeta Sethi2024
- Dune: Prophecy — Sister Francesca2024
- Khufiya — Krishna "KM" Mehra2023
- Bholaa — IPS Diana Joseph2023
- Kuttey — Pammi/Poonam Sandhu2023
- Drishyam 2 — Meera Deshmukh2022
- Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 — Manjulika/Anjulika2022
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 80,329
- Total plays
- 2,189,494
Tags
There are several bands called Tabu. 1) Tabu is a Polish reggae band (www.myspace.com/tabubandpl) they're started in 2003 in small village now they are popular They take part in festivals, concerts and they won many prizes try their music :) 2) Tabu is a Lithuanian pop band formed by Dainius, Darius, Matas, Vidas and Rimas. 3) Tabu is a Korean rock bank (타부), most well-known for their song "Wolsik", which was used in the fourth episode of the popular animated Korean series "There She Is!!"
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Model of oxygen bubbles and performance impact in the porous transport layer of PEM water electrolysis cells
· 2017 · cited 171x
- Population-Based Incidence of Typhoid Fever in an Urban Informal Settlement and a Rural Area in Kenya: Implications for Typhoid Vaccine Use in Africa
· 2012 · cited 161x
- Development of an experimentally validated semi-empirical fully-coupled performance model of a PEM electrolysis cell with a 3-D structured porous transport layer
· 2017 · cited 157x
- Effect of ten-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on invasive pneumococcal disease and nasopharyngeal carriage in Kenya: a longitudinal surveillance study
· 2019 · cited 152x
- Reducing routine vaccination dropout rates: evaluating two interventions in three Kenyan districts, 2014
· 2016 · cited 94x
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Key facts
- Born
- Tabassum Fatima Hashmi , ( 1971-11-04 ) 4 November 1971 (age 54) , Hyderabad , Andhra Pradesh, India
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1985–present
- Works
- Full list
- Relatives
- Azmi family
- Awards
- Full list
- Honours
- Padma Shri (2011)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Tabassum Fatima Hashmi (born 4 November 1971), professionally known as Tabu, is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. Widely regarded as one of Hindi cinema's most accomplished actresses, she is known for portraying complex, often troubled women, in both mainstream and independent films. She has received numerous accolades, including two National Film Awards, seven Filmfare Awards (including a record five Critics Awards for Best Actress), and two Filmfare Awards South. In 2011, she was honoured with the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award.
Tabu made her first credited appearance as a teenager in Dev Anand's Hum Naujawan (1985) and had her first leading role in the Telugu film Coolie No. 1 (1991). In 1994, she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for her performance in the Hindi action drama Vijaypath. She received the National Film Award for Best Actress for portraying a young woman affected by the Punjab insurgency in the political thriller Maachis (1996). That same year, she enjoyed commercial success with Ninne Pelladata, Kadhal Desam, Saajan Chale Sasural, and Jeet. Further box-office hits included the dramas Iruvar and Border (both 1997), Biwi No.1 and Hum Saath-Saath Hain (both 1999), as well as Kandukondain Kandukondain and Hera Pheri (both 2000).
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