Tabu is a popular name in Indian film Industry. She has also acted in few Telugu movies. Her full name is Tabassum Fatima Hashmi, although she has never used anything but Tabu professionally. Her parents had divorced when she was three years old. Speaking to Simi Garewal on Rendezvous with Simi Garewal, the talented actress Tabu opened up about her childhood, father and why she doesn’t use his surname.
Tabu said that she had a happy time growing up with her mother’s grandparents in Hyderabad. She said, “I had a great childhood, we lived in Hyderabad, I lived with my mother’s parents, after my parents divorced. My mother was a teacher and so I used to spend more time with her mother, and my grandmother would pray and read the books, and I grew up with that. I was very timid, I did not have a voice, in fact even after becoming a heroine, an actress, I did not have a voice.”
Tabu also spoke about her father. Her father had gone on to marry someone, and has two daughters from his second wife. Speaking about her surname and why she never used surname, Tabu said, “I never thought it was important for me to use my father’s surname, it was always Tabassum Fatima, which was my middle name. In school, Fatima was my surname. I have no memories of my father. I am not curious about him, I am happy the way I am. I am very settled in my own life.”