Having grown up in Hyderabad and completing her schooling at St. Ann’s High School before a brief stint at St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai, Tabassum Fatima Hashmi entered cinema with an uncredited child role and later a teenage appearance in Dev Anand’s Hum Naujawan. Her first lead came in the Telugu hit Coolie No. 1 (1991), and she earned the Filmfare Best Female Debut award for the Hindi action d…
