Aamir Khan gives the ‘best’ gift to Shabana Azmi on her 66th birthday

Veteran actress Shabana Azmi recently celebrated her 66th birthday.

While the actress was poured in by wishes from several B-town celebs, it was superstar Aamir Khan who went on to give Shabana the best gift on her birthday.

The actor arranged a special screening of his upcoming movie ‘Dangal’ for Shabana as a birthday present.

Indeed, Azmi has been over the moon with this gesture by Khan and also praised the film's lead actor Aamir Khan, director Nitesh Tiwari and producer Kiran Rao.

Shabana also took it to micro-blogging site Twitter to express her feelings and wrote, "Watching 'Dangal' is the best birthday gift I could get. Thank you Aamir Khan, Nitesh Tiwari, Kiran Rao, Fatima, Sana ... you are outstanding".

"Dangal" is a biographical sports drama film directed by Tiwari, which feature Aamir Khan portraying wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat.

Phogat is quite popular for teaching wrestling to his daughters Babita Kumari and Geeta Phogat.

Aamir had put in a lot of efforts for ‘Dangal’. He will be seen playing both younger and older characters of Phogat in the film, and he had put on weight up to 95 kg to play the older part and is currently in the process of bringing it down to around 70 kg.