“An American admirer and reviewer of Hindi films; dilettante; geek of all trades” has a blog dedicated to Shabana Azmi, Sounds Like Power.
The name of the blog apparently comes from a quote attributed to Shabana Azmi, as mentioned in the footer, though I confess I had never heard it before and googling for it didn’t give me much leads either. But it sounds, well, powerful!
“Say ‘Shabana’ and it is nectar. Say ‘Shabana Azmi’ and it sounds like power.”
I have always been a huge admirer. In fact, when I was still in school and someone asked me who was my favourite actress in Bollywood, I had answered quite unabashedly, “Shabana Azmi”, to which the reply was, “But she is old!”!
In fact I have been a fan ever since she went on a hunger strike to stop the evacuation of slum dwellers in Bombay and also protested the killing of Safdar Hashmi, the playwright, not to mention her movies, Ankur, Arth, Ek Doctor Ki Maut, Fire, Khamosh, Mandi, Masoom, Paar, Shatranj Ke Khiladi etc. etc. etc.
Safdar Hashmi’s mention made my day.
Another one on similar lines please…!!