Seema Azmi

Seema
Seema
Born	Seema; 8 January; Guwahati, Assam, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Theater & Film Actress
Known for	'Chak De! India (film)

Seema Azmi (also known as 'Seema' ) is an Indian film and theater actress. She was born in Guwahati, Assam, India, with Azamgarh origin and brought-up in Delhi where she completed her schooling and her graduation from Delhi university. She joined National School of Drama Delhi and completed her training in 2001 and was selected for the NSD Repertory Company the same year. She is currently an eminent Bollywood actor, theatre director and writer.

Filmography

Year	Title	Director	Role
2005	Water	Deepa Mehta	Bahu- Rani
2007	Chak De! India	Shimit Amin	Rani Dispotta
2008	Saas Bahu Aur Sensex	Shona Urvashi	Lata K. Kodialbal
2011	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	John Madden	Anokhi
2011	Aarakshan	Prakash Jha	Shambhu Yadav's Wife
2014	Sound of Silence: The Collision of Storms Within (Short)	Vipin Paraashar	The Girl
2015	Chitrafit 3.0 Megapixel	Divakar Ghodake	Shavla
2015	The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	John Madden	Anokhi

Upcoming Films

Mohalla Assi - (under production)
Ram Bhajan Zindabaad (under production)
Bumper Draw (under production)
Global Baba (under production)
Six X (under production)

Theater Experience

Worked with eminent Theatre personalities like: John Russell Brown, Peter James, Robin Das, M. K. Raina, K. N. Pannikar, Prof. Ram Gopal Bajaj, Kirti Jain, Prof. D. R. Ankur, Waman Kendre, Sanjay Upadhyay, Hema Singh, Amal Allana, Robert Clare, Dr. Anuradha Kapoor, Mohan Maharishi, Bhanu Bharti, Rajendra Nath, Prasanna, Ranjit Kapoor, Piyush Mishra, Arvind Gaur, Shahid Anwar, Pt. Satyadev Dubey, Raghunandan^{[disambiguation needed]}, Tripurari Sharma, Mahesh Dattani, Lillete Dubey etc. [2]
Wedding album a play Directed by Lillete Dubey, written by Girish Karnad, have performed almost 150 shows in India and abroad.
Running her own theatre group ‘Shila Shringar’, the aim is to bring together artists in professional theatre, theatre activists and amateurs passionate about theater to create something meaningful, inspirational but entertaining as well
Sara is a maiden venture of Shila Shringar. It’s a solo performance written by Shahid Anwar, directed by Mahesh Dattani and performed by Seema Azmi. Staged in various theater festivals

Early years

Azmi joined Asmita theatre group, Delhi in 1996.^[3] Her plays include Girish Karnad's Rakt Kalyan (Taledanda), Mahesh Dattani's Final Solutions, Ek Mamooli Aadmi, Swadesh Deepak's Court Martial, and Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist.^[4]