Tabu filmography
Indian actress Tabu appears primarily in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil films, she also appeared in few Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali and English language 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". After appearing in a series of poorly received films of 1995, 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 commercially successful 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 yearthe 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 "Hu Tu Tu" (1999). The film garnered positive reviews from critics but performed poorly at the box office. 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. Her other releases of 2003the erotic thriller "Hawa" and the action drama ""were commercial failures. The following year, Tabu played triple roles in M. F. Husain's musical drama "". Tabu's first international project came with Mira Nair's adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel "The Namesake". Also that year, she played a brief role in the romantic thriller "Fanaa". 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. Tabu took on fewer film projects over the next few years. She played a prostitute in the Telugu film "Pandurangadu" (2008) and appeared briefly in Ang Lee's adventure film "Life of Pi" (2012). In 2014, 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 went on to star in the ensemble horror comedy "Golmaal Again", and continued to receive praise for playing a police-officer in "Drishyam  (2015) and a murderess in Andhadhun" (2018). The latter ranks among the highest-grossing Indian films.