Some pictures

It's time for some gratuitous pretty pictures! (As always, click on the pictures for the full-size view.)

This, I think, is a promotional still from Godmother - isn't it lovely!



A recent commenter had not known that Shabana ji was originally intended to play Seema Biswas's role in Water, along with Nandita Das (in the role that became Lisa Ray's) - here they are together on the eve of the doomed shoot:



And this is just exquisite (please click because shrinking has been very unkind to this one):




And finally, a portrait that struck me as very nice, but is not of Shabana Azmi at all - rather, it is her father, Kaifi Azmi: