Known For: Indian actress
Category: Actresses
Occupation: actor, television actor
Country: India
City: Mumbai
Date of Birth: Wednesday, 02 December 1959
Language Hindi
Neelima Azeem is an Indian actress, classical dancer, writer and the mother of actors Shahid Kapoor and Ishaan Khatter. She is known in India for her roles in television shows.
BirthPlace | Mumbai |
Spouses | Pankaj Kapur, Rajesh Khattar, Raza Ali Khan |
Children | Shahid Kapoor, Ishaan Khatter |
Wikipedia | Neelima_Azeem |
Neelima Azeem's father was Anwar Azeem, a journalist and Urdu author from Bihar, and her mother, Khadija, was a relative of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. Azeem studied the Kathak form of Indian classical dance and was trained under Birju Maharaj and Munna Shukla.Azeem appears in both Hindi-language movies and in television series, she also did many historical and drama movies, Phir Wahi Talash, Amrapali, The Sword of Tipu Sultan and Junoon. In 2014, she performed at the PanchTatva annual Kathak festival organized by Birju Maharaj's Kalashram at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan Campus in Mumbai. She also worked in the Hindi movie Sadak opposite Deepak Tijori.