Tabu

Acting

Tabu

Born

1971-11-04 (54)

Place of birth

Hyderabad, India

Known for

Acting

Credits

71 titles

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 Awards, seven Filmfare Awards, two Filmfare Awards South, and the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 12 titles

Drishyam: The Conclusion poster
7.7

Years after outsmarting the police, Vijay Salgaonkar's past resurfaces when a new evidence threatens to expose his secret. As the investigation reopens, he must outwit the system once again to save his family.

Drishyam: The Conclusion

2026

Bhooth Bangla poster
5.6

A man inherits a palace in rural Mangalpur and plans his sister's wedding there, but strange supernatural events and panicked locals force him to investigate the property's mysterious past.

Bhooth Bangla

2026

Crew poster
6.7

Three ordinary air hostesses from Mumbai embark on a journey to pursue their dreams but find themselves caught up in unexpected misfortunes.

Crew

2024

Drishyam 2 poster
8.0

7 years after the case related to Vijay Salgaonkar and his family was closed, a series of unexpected events bring truth to light that threatens to change everything for the Salgaonkars. Can Vijay save his family this time?

Drishyam 2

2022

Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo poster
6.6

After growing up enduring criticism from his father, a young man finds his world shaken upon learning he was switched at birth with a millionaire's son.

Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo

2020

Golmaal 5 poster
NR

Get ready for another rollercoaster of laughter with the iconic gang.

Golmaal 5

2027

Bholaa poster
5.9

An ex-convict must undertake a perilous, violent journey in order to meet his daughter after ten years of imprisonment.

Bholaa

2023

Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha poster
5.3

After 20 years in prison, a man reunites with his lost love and the truth behind his crimes is revealed.

Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha

2024

Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 poster
6.1

When strangers Reet and Ruhan cross paths, their journey leads to an abandoned mansion and a dreaded spirit who has been trapped for eighteen years.

Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2

2022

King 100 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

King 100

2026

Khufiya poster
6.3

When a mole in an intelligence unit leads to the murder of an undercover spy, a hardened agent relentlessly pursues him to avenge the death.

Khufiya

2023

Kuttey poster
5.9

A van carrying crores of cash. One rainy night in the outskirts of Mumbai. Unaware of each other, three stray gangs cross paths on the hunt. Unfortunately, all of them have the same plan. Bullets... Blood... Betrayal... It’s every man for himself... All the dogs after one bone. Will these dogs bite the bone, or will they lose to greed?

Kuttey

2023

2010s · 16 titles

Life of Pi poster
7.4

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

Life of Pi

2012

Drishyam poster
7.5

When his family stares down the barrel of criminal charges, a commoner channels his street smarts and knowledge of action films to tie the long arm of the law into an investigative Gordian knot.

Drishyam

2015

Andhadhun poster
7.6

A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.

Andhadhun

2018

Fitoor poster
5.5

A young artist tries to win the heart of his muse, while her mother hatches a scheme to end his quest for true love.

Fitoor

2016

Bharat poster
6.0

At the cusp of India's birth as an Independent nation, a family makes an arduous journey to freedom at a cost. A young boy Bharat, makes a promise to his Father that he will keep his family together no matter what.

Bharat

2019

Talvar poster
7.5

A hardened cop deals with three conflicting perspectives involving a brutal double murder. The case is complicated as the prime suspects are the parents who supposedly killed their teenage daughter.

Talvar

2015

Sanju poster
7.2

Sanju explores some of the most crucial chapters from movie star Sanjay Dutt’s dramatic and controversial real life. It gives a lowdown on his tryst with drugs and his trials and tribulations in the Arms Acts case and the 1993 Mumbai blasts.

Sanju

2018

Haider poster
7.2

A young man returns to Kashmir after his father's disappearance to confront his uncle - the man he suspects to have a role in his father's fate.

Haider

2014

David poster
7.3

The story is about three Davids living in different parts of India whose lives eventually come together in a twist of events, and who are about to take a step that is going to change their lives forever.

David

2013

Golmaal Again poster
5.4

Gopal and his best friends are back again, and this time they move back to their old neighborhood in a new palatial house where they learn that it is being haunted by a ghost.

Golmaal Again

2017

De De Pyaar De poster
6.1

A 50-year-old single father faces disapproval from his family and his ex-wife when he falls in love with a 26-year-old woman.

De De Pyaar De

2019

Jai Ho poster
5.0

An upright ex-army man, Jai fights a solitary war against corruption and injustice. With a simple mantra to pay forward, he starts off by helping one person and forms an ever growing circle of people helping each other.

Jai Ho

2014

Raja Leelai poster
NR

Raja Leelai story tells about a divorcee who gets fancied by a spirit in the new bungalow of her. What happens next lies the climax.

Raja Leelai

2010

Missing poster
6.1

A couple checks into a beach resort in Mauritius late night with their three-year-old daughter Titli who in the next morning goes missing.

Missing

2018

Urumi poster
7.0

A young man who discovers his ancestral connection to a 16th century warrior who sought revenge against Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama. Blending history and legend, the story traces a rebellion fueled by betrayal, courage, and the fight against colonial conquest.

Urumi

2011

Khuda Kasam poster
NR

Delhi-based CBI Captain Neetu Singh is instructed by Chief Sawant to investigate the assassination of Maharashtra's Chief Minister Satyaprakash. Her investigations will lead her to conclude that the killing was planned and carried out by Home Minister Bhavani Prasad Lala and Superintendent of Police Waghmare. She then meets with Fatima, and is told the story of the latter's son, Hussain, who was convicted for possession and supply of fire-arms and sentenced to five years in prison. She meets Hussain in prison and decides to assist him, but before she could do that she and her mother, Shanti, both end up on the defensive, when evidence surfaces that Neetu had hired a hit-man, Tatya, to kill Satyaprakash. The Judge hearing this incident finds her guilty and sentences her to prison.

Khuda Kasam

2010

2000s · 15 titles

Om Shanti Om poster
7.1

In the early 70s, aspiring actor Om Prakash Makhija, and a famous starlet Shantipriya, are murdered. Thirty years later, his reincarnation Om Kapoor sets out to discover the mystery of their demise.

Om Shanti Om

2007

Main Hoon Na poster
6.6

An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.

Main Hoon Na

2004

The Namesake poster
6.8

The American-born son of Indian immigrants strives to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.

The Namesake

2007

Hera Pheri poster
7.1

Two tenants and a landlord, in desperate need of money, chance upon a ransom call via a cross connection. They hatch a plan to claim the ransom for themselves.

Hera Pheri

2000

Phir Hera Pheri poster
6.9

Raju, Shyam and Baburao are living happily after having risen from rags to riches. However, they lose it all after falling victim to a chit fund scam due to their greed for more money. Soon, they find themselves in new mess and encounter eccentric and dangerous characters in their quest for a shortcut to riches again.

Phir Hera Pheri

2006

Kandukondain Kandukondain poster
7.1

Two young women with differing views on love find themselves with three suitors in this modern take on Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility' set in Tamil Nadu.

Kandukondain Kandukondain

2000

Silsiilay poster
5.2

An account of the lives of three women who are not connected to each other.

Silsiilay

2005

Fanaa poster
6.7

Zooni Ali Beg is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dance troupe to Delhi to perform in a ceremony for independence day. On her journey, she meets Rehan Khan, a casanova and tour guide who flirts with her. Although her friends warn Zooni about him, she cannot resist falling in love with him and he takes her on a private tour of New Delhi. But there is more to Rehan than meets the eye and Zooni will have to make a heartbreaking decision.

Fanaa

2006

Cheeni Kum poster
6.1

Buddhadev Gupta, a 64-year-old chef, falls in love with a 34-year-old software engineer, Nina. However, their future becomes uncertain when he discovers that her father is six years his junior.

Cheeni Kum

2007

Maqbool poster
7.1

The Scottish tragedy 'Macbeth' set in the contemporary underworld of India's commercial capital; two corrupt, fortune telling policemen take the roles of the weird sisters, and "Duncan" is Abbaji, the head of a crime family.

Maqbool

2003

Filhaal... poster
10.0

Rewa Singh (Tabu) and Sia Sheth (Sushmita Sen) are best friends. Having grown up together, the pair are inseparable and are always there for each other. They are very different when it comes to marriage and commitment.

Filhaal...

2002

Saathiya poster
6.2

A couple elopes to get married and set up home hoping that just love will do the trick - but that's just the beginning of their story.

Saathiya

2002

Jaal: The Trap poster
5.9

Sunny Deol battles terrorists from Kashmir; from director Guddu Dhanoa.

Jaal: The Trap

2003

Aamdani Atthanni Kharcha Rupaiya poster
4.8

Jhoomri and her husband, Bhimsha, move into a new neighbourhood. Their immediate neighbours are three squabbling couples, namely Vijay and Anjali who are newly married; Appu Khote and Vimla, who are married and have 4 children; and Ravi and Meena, who are also married and have one child. With their wages unable to keep up with inflation and high cost of living, unable to pay even rent to the landlord, B.K. Kakkad, the wives decide to seek employment to augment their income, with hilarious results from their spouses, who will go to any extent to keep their wives at home, even if means to bring a dancing girl home to cook and look after the children!!

Aamdani Atthanni Kharcha Rupaiya

2001

Ghaath poster
9.0

Krishna Patil is a poor, unemployed, unsuccessful and short tempered youth who stays in a chawl with his father Ramakant and elder sister Mansi. He tries to secure a job in the police department but fails. One day he happens to meet Kavita Choudhary, a young, rich, beautiful, intelligent lawyer. He falls for her instantly and begins wooing her. Kavita, having recently lost her father, stays alone and feels lonely and depressed. There is a certain void in her life. She is looking for someone to share her loneliness and an unemployed Krishna suits her requirements perfectly. Hence she accepts him as her boyfriend despite his mediocre looks, poor family background, jobless status and lack of personal hygiene.

Ghaath

2000

1990s · 15 titles

Iruvar poster
7.5

A fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, continuing the tryst between Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics.

Iruvar

1997

Border poster
6.5

Amidst the 1971 Indo-Pak war, a company of 120 Indian soldiers stationed at the border region of Longewala in Rajasthan must defend their post through the night against two thousand Pakistani troops armed with tanks. Based on the true events of the Battle of Longewala.

Border

1997

Kohram poster
6.8

Major Balbir Singh Sodhi (Amitabh Bachchan) attempts to kill the Indian Home Minister Veer Bhadra Singh (Danny Denzongpa) but is unsuccessful. He has been identified, and the army is on the look-out for him to court-martial him. They suspect that he has assumed a new identity, that of Devraj Hathoda alias Dadabhai...

Kohram

1999

Kaalapani poster
7.9

Govardhan, a doctor by profession, is wrongly accused of bombing a train and is jailed by the British in Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He witnesses sufferings of hundreds of Indian prisoners there.

Kaalapani

1996

Tu Chor Main Sipahi poster
5.4

Thakur Gajendra Singh runs a criminal empire from a small town. The Thakur rules this town, including the police, who only cater to his interests. His town has been known to be the grave-yard of police officers who have dared to oppose him. Inspector Amar Varma accepts the assignment to serve in this town, not knowing that he is not only putting his own life, but the lives of his loved ones also, in the hands of the merciless Thakur.

Tu Chor Main Sipahi

1996

Pehla Pehla Pyar poster
6.9

Sapna runs away from her aristocratic home, fed-up of the hatred and family politics. She meets with Raj, who she is attracted to. Raj, at first wants to get rid of her, then eventually falls in love with her. Then the two of them have to be on the run as her family find out where she is after they put up a reward for her whereabouts.

Pehla Pehla Pyar

1994

Vijaypath poster
5.7

The family of Justice Saxena is extremely happy until his younger brother Inspector Rajesh Saxena (Suresh Oberoi) arrests a notorious gangster, Bhawani Singh. Justice Saxena sentences Bhawani Singh to death. Bhawani Singh's brother, Dilawar Singh (Danny Denzongpa), vows to avenge his brother and he kills the judge as well as his driver Shanker. Dilawar Singh also tries to kill their sons. Driver Shanker's son, Karan (Ajay Devgan) loses his eyesight while saving Justice Saxena's son Babloo. Justice Saxena's wife, the two children and Rajesh Saxena leave the city. Dilawar Singh finds them and kills the Judge's wife and throws Babloo out of the running train. Before dying, Babloo donates his eyes to Karan. Karan vows that he will not remove his goggles till he confronts Dilawar Singh.

Vijaypath

1994

Hum Saath Saath Hain poster
6.1

A wealthy businessman's traditional family celebrate their togetherness when his three sons get married, but slowly find themselves growing apart after a misunderstanding.

Hum Saath Saath Hain

1999

Jeet poster
6.4

The story of a hitman who kills for the mob, but on one job he falls madly in love with a girl, who happens to be the beautiful daughter of an associate.

Jeet

1996

Biwi No.1 poster
5.8

Two adorable kids, a quirky mother-in-law and a happy-go-lucky friend help a heartbroken wife bring a straying husband back from the other woman's tangled embrace.

Biwi No.1

1999

Hanuman poster
5.8

Hanuman is the most lovable baby monkey one can imagine. He meets Tom who comes to visit the temple in the Valley of Monkeys and tries to protect it from the robbers. A warm relationship develops between the two.

Hanuman

1998

Virasat poster
7.4

After completing his studies in London, England, Shakti Thakur returns home to India in a small town where his family resides.

Virasat

1997

Chachi 420 poster
7.0

In order to see his little girl more often, a divorcee disguises himself as an old lady and gets a job as his own daughter's caretaker. A Hindi remake of the 1996 Tamil film "Avvai Shanmugi," which is itself a remake of the Hollywood film "Mrs. Doubtfire."

Chachi 420

1997

Haqeeqat poster
5.1

After her husband, Ravi Malhotra, is killed, Sudha lives the life of a widow with her brother, Mahesh, and Bhabhi, Kamini. A new tenant, Ajay, comes to her rescue when she is molested by Bhavani's brother, both fall in love and decide to get married. Kamini initially opposes this match, but subsequently relents and both get married. Shortly thereafter she gets pregnant and it is then she finds out that Ajay is not who he claims to be, and may have been responsible for killing her husband.

Haqeeqat

1995

Thaayin Manikodi poster
4.8

Arjun is a sincere CBI officer. He rescues a kidnapped lady (Tabu) from the clutches terrorists. But in the process Rani loses her parents. Arjun takes Rani to his house. With the help of Rani, he makes a sketch of the kingpin and publishes it in major newspapers. The kingpin summons a local don to eliminate Arjun.

Thaayin Manikodi

1998

Series credits

The Kapil Sharma Show poster
7.0

Kapil Sharma is back with his gang - Bindu, Chandan and 'mohalle ki dhoban' Gudiya. In tow is a new character, Maski, along with Goli, Roopmati and more! Enjoy guaranteed laughter with Kapil and his antics as different celebrities join in.

The Kapil Sharma Show

2016

Indian Idol poster
5.7

The Indian version of the Pop Idol format.

Indian Idol

2004

Dune: Prophecy poster
7.2

Ten thousand years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, sisters Valya and Tula Harkonnen establish the fabled sect and female order that would become known as the Bene Gesserit to control the future of humankind.

Dune: Prophecy

2024

Comedy Nights with Kapil poster
6.8

Comedy Nights with Kapil is a comedy show which provides a distinctive take on the everyday life of a common man as the show explores the story of every household and how our common man Kapil is affected by the simplest issues in life around him.

Comedy Nights with Kapil

2013

Koffee with Karan poster
5.9

Koffee with Karan is an Indian talk show hosted by filmmaker and television personality Karan Johar and produced by Dharmatic Entertainment, the digital content division of Johar's production company Dharma Productions

Koffee with Karan

2004

Khatron Ke Khiladi poster
6.0

Twelve celebrity contestants face their worst fears and perform a series of death-defying stunts under the supervision of a host to win the coveted title.

Khatron Ke Khiladi

2008

The Drama Company poster
3.3

The Drama Company will feature an eclectic mix of the finest comedians in a theatrical plot portraying different characters each week. The show will explore multiple genres of comedy– from topical to physical comedy and offer viewers a complete dose of laughter and unlimited entertainment. Starring Mithun Chakraborty as Shambu Dada, the ring master of a crew of highly misfit characters including Ali Asgar, Dr. Sanket Bhosale, Sugandha Mishra, Krushna Abhishek, Sudesh Lehri, Ridhima Pandit, Tanaji and Aru Verma. Every episode will feature the team of misfits aspiring to make a blockbuster play to impress Shambhu Dada in exchange for a promise of a world tour. But as luck would have it, nothing will go right. The hilarious turn of events will push the madcap team to start afresh with a brand-new play every week. Little do they know that Shambu Dada is a sham, whose is running his own business by selling tickets for the play.

The Drama Company

2017

Comedy Nights Live poster
6.0

Comedy Nights Live is an Indian stand-up comedy television series. Krushna Abhishek hosts the show. Siddharth Sagar, Sudesh Lehri, Upasana Singh, Bharti Singh, Rashmi Desai are some of the comedians of the show. Madhuri Dixit was the first celebrity to appear on the show.

Comedy Nights Live

2016

The Anupam Kher Show poster
7.3

The show starts with Anupam Kher welcoming everyone on the show. Anupam Kher then welcomes Bollywood actress Kajol on the show. Kajol then open her heart out highlighting her fears, likes and dislikes. Later, a member of the audience is asked to come on the stage for a Kuch Bhi Ho Sakta moment. Watch the show to know the likes, dislikes and fears of Kajol.

The Anupam Kher Show

2014

A Suitable Boy poster
6.0

Modernity confronts tradition in 1950s post-Partition India as a young woman resists an arranged marriage in favour of pursuit of love and a politician's son becomes involved in a transgressive affair.

A Suitable Boy

2020

Rising Star poster
5.0

Rising Star is an Indian version of the international franchise series Rising Star. It is a reality television singing competition. The program format lets viewers vote for contestants live via the television channel's mobile app. This is the first reality television show in India which involves live audience voting.

Rising Star

2017