What are some rare photos of the Godmother actor "Shavana Azmi"?

 

Actor Shabana Azmi is celebrating her 70th birthday today. On the occasion of Shabana's special day, here are some rare photos from the actor's 46-year long journey in the movies.

Shabana Azmi earned a National Film Award for her debut film, Shyam Benegal's Ankur.

Over the course of her career, Shabana Azmi has won five National Film Awards for Ankur, Arth, Khandhar, Paar and Godmother.

Some of Shabana Azmi's best-known films include Swami, Arth, Bhavna, Fire, Makdee, Tehzeeb and Neerja among others.

While Shabana Azmi has been a part of the parallel cinema movement since her early days, she has also been quite active in commercial cinema with films like Amar Akbar Anthony and Parvarish among others.

Shabana Azmi married writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar in 1984. She is the daughter of poet Kaifi Azmi.

Shabana Azmi was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1988.

Shabana Azmi will next be seen in Sheer Qorma, which also stars Swara Bhasker and Divya Dutta.

Would you have share some rare picture collection from history?

 I am from Mumbai, so here are some old, or rare, or both from Mumbai and India…. I have added some recent pictures in some cases, for the contrast.

The best of Hindi film industry pose with the then Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi

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Liberty Cinema

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The Braborne Stadium, in 1950… .and today, the HQ of BCCI

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Chowpaty Beach

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Apollo Pier before construction of the Gateway of India (1905)

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The Bombay Police

Chor Bazaar, Bambay

The Marine Drive…. also called the Queen’s Necklace - 1870 (above) and today

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The B.E.S.T (Bombay Electricity & Suburban Transport) Tram service

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Cotton Merchants, near Cotton Exchange building, Bombay

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The Victoria Terminus Station building… today known as Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus

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The Taj Mahal was given a Steel cage protection

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This is my Late Mother iin Lonavala, Maharashtra

The station as it is today…

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S O M E . . . REAL RARITIES…

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Driving Licence 1943 (war Time)

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Cash Memo for a Masala Dosa and a cup of coffee - Rs. 2.16

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Kashmiri Gate, Delhi… in 1857

and today…

Martyr Shahid Chandrashekhar Azad, after he was killed by the British

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India Gate, New Delhi - 1952

and today…

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Two Nobel Laureates - Albert Einstein and Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore

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Two sons of the last Mughal ruler, Bahadur Shah Zafar

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Bahadur Shah Zafar, before being sent to Burma (for exile)

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Maharaja (of Jammu & Kashmir) Hari Singh with India’s Home Minister Sardar V. Patel after the accession treaty was signed making Kashmir Indian territory.

What are some rare historical photos of India that tell fascinating stories from before and after independence?

 In one photograph, a foreign king towers over 100,000 Indian subjects. In another taken 39 years later, the marginalized man who drafted India's new constitution sits quietly in the crowd.

Placing these two images side-by-side illustrates India's transition to an independent republic with striking clarity.

At first glance, the photograph below resembles a scene from an ancient era. It was taken in December 1911.

King George V and Queen Mary preside over the 1911 Delhi Durbar in India. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

This is the Delhi Durbar, a gathering held to commemorate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary. Over 100,000 attendees, including Indian royalty, British officials, and troops, assembled on a sprawling plain. The rigid visual hierarchy in the photograph—the monarchs elevated under a domed pavilion, surrounded by endless ranks of subjects—projected the British Empire at its absolute zenith. It was at this exact event that the King abruptly announced the capital of British India would move from Calcutta to Delhi, redrawing the political map of the subcontinent. The image represents foreign rule designed to look permanent and unshakeable.

Thirty-nine years later, that empire was gone. On January 26, 1950, India officially adopted its new Constitution.

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar sits among the audience at India's first Republic Day parade in 1950. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

This unassuming photograph captures Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (seated seventh from the right) watching the country’s first Republic Day parade in New Delhi. The contrast with the 1911 Durbar is profound. Instead of a foreign monarch elevated above the masses, the architectural force behind the nation's new foundation was Ambedkar—a man born into the marginalized Dalit community who had faced severe caste discrimination his entire life. He rose to become the chief drafter of the Indian Constitution, designing the democratic framework for the newly independent state.

In 1911, power was a spectacle imposed from above by an empire. By 1950, the authority to govern had shifted to a constitutional republic drafted by one of its most marginalized citizens, who simply sat in the audience to watch his work take effect.

What are some rare photos of world history?

 Pictures From The 1900s Showing The Struggles Of Working Children Before Child Labor Was Abolished

1.Noon Hour In The Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co.

2.Newsboy Asleep On Stairs With Papers.

3.Vance, A Trapper Boy, 15 Years Old. Has Trapped For Several Years In A West Va. Coal Mine. $.75 A Day For 10 Hours Work. All He Does Is To Open And Shut This Door. Location: West Virginia

4.Frank P, Whose Legs Were Cut Off By A Motor Car In A Coal Mine In West Virginia When He Was 14 Years 10 Months Of Age.

5.Some Boys Were So Small They Had To Climb Up On The Spinning Frame To Mend The Broken Threads And Put Back The Empty Bobbins.

6.A Moments Glimpse Of The Outer World

7.Some Of Newark's Small Newsboys

8. Eight Year Old

9. Two Of The Tiny Workers

10.Two Of The Tiny Workers

11.Scene In Canning Factory

12.Drivers In A Coal Mine

13.working girls

14.Fruit Vendors

15. Finally food time

If any one wants to see more child labour photos during 20th century

Gruesome Pictures From The 1900s Showing The Struggles Of Working Children Before Child Labor Was Abolished