Neelima Azeem

Neelima Azeem (born 2 December 1958) 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.

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.

She married Pankaj Kapoor in the year 1979 but they later divorced.

Her son Shahid Kapoor is a Bollywood actor.

She later married Rajesh Khattar and had a son Ishaan Khatter who is also a Bollywood actor.

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.