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Actor, writer, comrade Shaukat Kaifi passes away

Hyderabad, TELANGANA / Mumbai, MAHARASHTRA :

Shaukat Kaifi with her daughter actor Shabana Azmi, lyricist Javed Akhtar, Tanvi and Baba Azmi. File | Photo Credit: PTI
Shaukat Kaifi with her daughter actor Shabana Azmi, lyricist Javed Akhtar, Tanvi and Baba Azmi. File | Photo Credit: PTI

In the world of films she is best known for her work in M.S. Sathyu’s Garm Hava, Muzaffar Ali’s Umrao Jaan and Sagar Sathadi’s Bazaar.

Veteran theatre and film actor and writer Shaukat Kaifi is no more. According to a family source she was in her 90s and ailing for a long while and passed away on Friday evening at her Juhu home in the arms of her daughter, actor Shabana Azmi.

Shaukat Aapa, as she was called, along with her husband, Urdu poet and film lyricist, Kaifi Azmi  had been the leading light of the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) and the Progressive Writers Association, the cultural wings of the Communist Party of India (CPI).

In the world of films she is best known for her work in M.S. Sathyu’s Garm Hava, Muzaffar Ali’s Umrao Jaan and Sagar Sathadi’s Bazaar.

Shaukat Kaifi’s memoirs , Kaifi and I had been turned into a theatrical rendition Kaifa aur Main with Shabana and Javed Akhtar reading the parts of Shaukat and Kaifi respectively.

She is survived by her daughter Shabana, son and noted cinematographer Baba Azmi, daughter in law actor Tanvi Azmi and son-in-law, poet, writer and lyricist Javed Akhtar. She has passed away even as the year-long Kaifi centenary events roll on.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Entertainment> Movies / by Special Correspondent / Mumbai – November 22nd, 2019

Shabana congratulates Javed Akhtar for receiving award

UTTAR PRADESH / Mumbai, MAHARASHTRA :

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Actress-socialist Shabana Azmi has congratulated veteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar
for being feted with the Shanti Dhoot citation and award.

Shabana shared a photograph of Akhtar receiving the award and captioned it: “Congratulations Javed Akhtar for receiving the prestigious Shanti Dhoot citation and Award from (On the left in black jacket) the Kashi Mahant Shri Vishwamber Nath Mishra.”

Shabana married Akhtar in 1984. Akhtar was previously married to Honey Irani, with whom he had two children, Farhan Akhtar and Zoya Akhtar.

source: http://www.ianslive.in / IANSLive.in /  Home> Entertainment> Bollywood Country Report / April 07th, 2018