# Tabu filmography

Indian actress Tabu appears primarily in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil films. Her first credited role came as a teenager in Dev Anand's Hum Naujawan (1985), and her first major role was in the Telugu film Coolie No. 1 (1991). In 1994, Tabu received the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for the Hindi action drama Vijaypath, which marked her first of many collaborations with co-star Ajay Devgn. The year 1996 was key for Tabu. Her performance as a young woman affected by the Punjab insurgency in Gulzar's Maachis proved to be a breakthrough, winning her the National Film Award for Best Actress. Also that year, Tabu won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu for the romance Ninne Pelladata, and featured alongside Govinda in the comedy film Saajan Chale Sasural.
Tabu had a brief role in the war film Border, the highest-grossing Hindi film of 1997, and portrayed a village girl opposite Anil Kapoor in the Priyadarshan-directed drama Virasat. Among her 1999 releases were two of the top-grossing Bollywood films of the year—the comedy Biwi No.1, and the family drama Hum Saath-Saath Hain. She also starred as the rebellious daughter of a corrupt politician in Gulzar's critically praised drama Hu Tu Tu (1999). The following year, she starred in Kandukondain Kandukondain, a Tamil adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, and played a submissive homemaker in the bilingual drama Astitva. Tabu garnered a second National Film Award for Best Actress for portraying a bar dancer in Madhur Bhandarkar's crime drama Chandni Bar (2001). In 2003, she starred in the Bengali film Abar Aranye, and portrayed a character based on Lady Macbeth, in Maqbool—an adaptation of Macbeth from Vishal Bhardwaj. Following a few commercial failures, Tabu played triple roles in M. F. Husain's musical drama Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities. Tabu's first international project came with Mira Nair's adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Namesake. In R. Balki's Cheeni Kum (2007), Tabu starred alongside Amitabh Bachchan as a woman romantically involved with a much older man; the role earned her a record fourth Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.
Following a brief role in Ang Lee's adventure film Life of Pi (2012), Tabu starred alongside Salman Khan in Jai Ho, and garnered critical acclaim for playing the Gertrude character in Bhardwaj's Haider. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter. Tabu's career continued to expand with starring roles opposite Devgn in the thriller Drishyam (2015), the horror comedy Golmaal Again (2017), and the romantic comedy De De Pyaar De (2019). She gained acclaim for playing a murderess in Andhadhun (2018), which ranks as one of the highest-grossing Indian films. In 2020, she featured in the top-grossing Telugu film Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo, winning the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu, and starred in the British miniseries A Suitable Boy. Further commercial successes came in 2022 with the sequels Drishyam 2 and Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 and the female-led heist comedy Crew (2024). Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 won her another Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.

## Films

Key :
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
List of film credits :
| Year | Title | Role(s) | Language | Notes | Ref. |
| 1982 | Bazaar | Unnamed | Hindi | Uncredited appearance in song "Chale Aao Saiyan" | |
| 1985 | Hum Naujawan | Priya | Hindi | | |
| 1991 | Coolie No. 1 | Ranjani | Telugu | | |
| 1994 | Pehla Pehla Pyar | Sapna | Hindi | | |
| 1994 | Vijaypath | Mohini | Hindi | | |
| 1995 | Prem | Laachi/Sonia | Hindi | | |
| 1995 | Saajan Ki Baahon Mein | Kavita Verma | Hindi | | |
| 1995 | Sisindri | Herself | Telugu | Cameo | |
| 1995 | Haqeeqat | Sudha Singh | Hindi | | |
| 1996 | Himmat | Anjali Pathak | Hindi | | |
| 1996 | Kadhal Desam | Divya | Tamil | | |
| 1996 | Tu Chor Main Sipahi | Kajal | Hindi | | |
| 1996 | Jeet | Tulsibai | Hindi | | |
| 1996 | Kaalapani | Parvathi | Malayalam | | |
| 1996 | Maachis | Veerandar | Hindi | | |
| 1996 | Saajan Chale Sasural | Divya Khurana | Hindi | | |
| 1996 | Ninne Pelladata | Mahalakshmi | Telugu | | |
| 1997 | Darmiyaan: In Between | Chitra | Hindi | | |
| 1997 | Virasat | Gehna Rane | Hindi | | |
| 1997 | Border | Yamora Kaur | Hindi | | |
| 1997 | Iruvar | Senthamarai | Tamil | | |
| 1997 | Chachi 420 | Janki Paswan | Hindi | | |
| 1998 | Aavida Maa Aavide | Archana | Telugu | | |
| 1998 | 2001: Do Hazaar Ek | Billu | Hindi | | |
| 1998 | Thaayin Manikodi | Anjali | Tamil | | |
| 1998 | Hanuman | Anja | English | French-Indian film | |
| 1999 | Hu Tu Tu | Parveen "Panna" | Hindi | | [11] [67][68] |
| 1999 | Biwi No.1 | Lovely Khurana | Hindi | | |
| 1999 | Kohram | ACP Kiran Patkar | Hindi | | |
| 1999 | Hum Saath-Saath Hain | Sadhna Sharma Chaturvedi | Hindi | | |
| 1999 | Thakshak | Suman Dev | Hindi | | |
| 2000 | Hera Pheri | Anuradha Panikar | Hindi | | |
| 2000 | Kandukondain Kandukondain | Sowmya | Tamil | | |
| 2000 | Tarkieb | Roshni Choubey | Hindi | | |
| 2000 | Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar | Kamya Lal | Hindi | | |
| 2000 | Shikari | Suman | Hindi | | |
| 2000 | Astitva | Aditi Pandit | Hindi Marathi | | [79] [80] [81] |
| 2000 | Ghaath | Kavita Choudhary | Hindi | | |
| 2000 | Snegithiye | ACP Gayatri Varma | Tamil | | |
| 2000 | Cover Story | Jasmine Khan | Malayalam | | |
| 2001 | Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya | Roshni Batra | Hindi | | |
| 2001 | Chandni Bar | Mumtaz | Hindi | | [3] [16] [86] |
| 2001 | Aamdani Atthani Kharcha Rupaiyaa | Meena | Hindi | | |
| 2002 | Maa Tujhhe Salaam | Captain Sonia Khanna | Hindi | | |
| 2002 | Filhaal... | Rewa Singh | Hindi | | |
| 2002 | Chennakesava Reddy | Devi | Telugu | | |
| 2002 | Zindagi Khoobsoorat Hai | Shalu | Hindi | | |
| 2002 | Saathiya | Savitri Rao | Hindi | Cameo | [92] [93] |
| 2003 | Abar Aranye | Amrita | Bengali | | |
| 2003 | Khanjar | Shilpa | Hindi | | |
| 2003 | Hawa | Sanjana | Hindi | | |
| 2003 | Jaal | Neha Pandit | Hindi | | |
| 2003 | Maqbool | Nimmi | Hindi | | |
| 2004 | Main Hoon Na | Aparna | Hindi | Cameo | |
| 2004 | Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities | Meenaxi / Maria / Zarkova | Hindi | | |
| 2005 | Bhagmati | Shivranjani/Bhagmati | Hindi | | [100] [101] |
| 2005 | Andarivaadu | Shanthi | Telugu | | |
| 2005 | Silsiilay | Rehana | Hindi | | |
| 2006 | Shock | Gita | Telugu | | |
| 2006 | Fanaa | Malini Tyagi | Hindi | | |
| 2006 | The Namesake | Ashima | English | | |
| 2007 | Sarhad Paar | Pammi | Hindi | | |
| 2007 | Rakkilippattu | ACP Gayatri Varma | Malayalam | | |
| 2007 | Cheeni Kum | Nina Verma | Hindi | | [23] [109] |
| 2007 | Om Shanti Om | Herself | Hindi | Special appearance in song "Deewangi Deewangi" | [110] [111] |
| 2008 | Idi Sangathi | Swarajyalakshmi | Telugu | | |
| 2008 | Pandurangadu | Amrutha | Telugu | | [113] [114] |
| 2010 | Toh Baat Pakki! | Rajeshwari Saxena | Hindi | | |
| 2010 | Khuda Kasam | Neetu Singh | Hindi | | |
| 2011 | Urumi | Herself | Malayalam | Cameo | [26] [117] |
| 2012 | Life of Pi | Gita Patel | English | | |
| 2013 | David | Frenny | Hindi | Simultaneously shot in Tamil as David (2013) | |
| 2014 | Jai Ho | Geeta Agnihotri Khanna | Hindi | | |
| 2014 | Haider | Ghazala Meer | Hindi | Also playback singer for song "Roshe Valle" | [29][122] [123] |
| 2015 | Drishyam | IG Meera Deshmukh | Hindi | | [124] [125] |
| 2015 | Talvar | Reema Kumar | Hindi | Cameo | [126] [127] |
| 2016 | Fitoor | Begum Hazrat Jaan | Hindi | | |
| 2017 | Golmaal Again | Anna Matthew | Hindi | | |
| 2018 | Missing | Aparna Dubey | Hindi | Also playback singer for song "Soja Re" | [130] [131] |
| 2018 | Sanju | Herself | Hindi | Cameo | |
| 2018 | Andhadhun | Simi Sinha | Hindi | | |
| 2019 | De De Pyaar De | Manjana "Manju" Rao Mehra | Hindi | | |
| 2019 | Bharat | Meher/Gudiya Kumar | Hindi | Cameo | |
| 2020 | Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo | Yasoda "Yasu" | Telugu | | |
| 2020 | Jawaani Jaaneman | Ananya | Hindi | | |
| 2022 | Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 | Manjulika/Anjulika | Hindi | | |
| 2022 | Drishyam 2 | Meera Deshmukh | Hindi | | |
| 2023 | Kuttey | Poonam "Pammi" Sandhu | Hindi | | |
| 2023 | Bholaa | Diana Joseph | Hindi | | |
| 2023 | Khufiya | Krishna Mehra | Hindi | | |
| 2024 | Crew | Geeta Sethi | Hindi | | |
| 2024 | Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha | Vasudha Chaudhary | Hindi | | |
| 2026 | Bhooth Bangla † | TBA | Hindi | Filming | |

## Television

List of television credits :
| Year | Title | Role | Language | Notes |
| 2019 | Thriller Factory | Divya (voice) | Hindi | Audio series |
| 2020 | A Suitable Boy | Saaeda Bai | English | Miniseries |
| 2024 | Dune: Prophecy | Sister Francesca | English | TV series |