Aamir, Anil Kapoor, Tabu, Kajol among stars at Shaukat Azmi prayer meet

Bollywood personalities paid their last respect to veteran actress Shabana Azmi's mother, late Shaukat Azmi, at a prayer meet held in her memory on Tuesday evening in Mumbai.

Nov 27, 2019, 9:00 am ISTNewsIANS

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Bollywood personalities paid their last respect to veteran actress Shabana Azmi's mother, late Shaukat Azmi, at a prayer meet held in her memory on Tuesday evening in Mumbai.

A leading face in the theatre and film world, Shaukat Kaifi breathed her last at the age of 93 on Friday evening after suffering a cardiac arrest.

At Tuesday's prayer meet, organised by Shabana Azmi and her husband Javed Akhtar, one spotted Aamir Khan, Anil Kapoor, Kajol, Urmila Matondkar, Waheeda Rehman, Asha Parekh, Aditi Rao Hydari, Saiyami Kher, Satish Kaushik, Mita Vashisht, Ashutosh and Sunita Gowariker, Madhur Bhandarkar, Vijay Krishna Acharya, Jayantilal Gada, Avtar Gill, Ila Arun, Kanwaljit Singh, Anuradha Patel and Sandip Soparrkar.

Jeetendra, David Dhawan, Rakesh Roshan, Neena Gupta, Tisca Chopra, Sandhya Mridul, Boney Kapoor, Supriya Pathak, Seema Seema Pahwa, Poonam Dhillon, Nandita Das, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Anup Soni, Juhi Babbar, Anup Jalota, Javed Jaffrey and Sophie Choudry also turned out to pay their respect.

Family members present included Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhar, Baba Azmi, Tanvi Azmi and their children, and Tabu.

In Bollywood, Shaukat Azmi worked in Muzaffar Ali's "Umrao Jaan" (1981), Sagar Sarhadi's "Bazaar" (1982) and Mira Nair's "Salaam Bombay!" (1988) among other films. Her first major appearance was in the MS Sathyu classic, "Garm Hava" (1974). Her last film was Shaadi Ali's "Saathiya" (2002).

Born in Hyderabad, Shaukat married late Urdu poet Kaifi Azmi at a very early age. She along with her husband was among the prominent names in the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) movement.

Mumbai: Actress Rekha at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: Actor Naseeruddin Shah at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: Actor Rishi Kapoor at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: Actor Amitabh Bachchan at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: Actress Swara Bhaskar at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: Actor Anil Kapoor at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: Actress Nandita Das at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: Actor Farhan Akhtar at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Kapoor at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: Actress Divya Dutta at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: Actress Aditi Rao Hydari at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: Film producer Kiran Rao at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: Actress Neelima Azeem at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: Actor Anil Kapoor's wife Sunita Kapoor at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: Actor Pavan Malhotra at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: Singer Shankar Mahadevan at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)

Mumbai: CBFC chairman Prasoon Joshi at the funeral of Shaukat Azmi - veteran actress, wife of renowned Late Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi and mother of actress Shabana Azmi - in Mumbai on Nov 23, 2019. (Photo: IANS)