Naam Shabana (transl. The name is Shabana) is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Shivam Nair, written by Neeraj Pandey and was co-produced by Pandey and Aruna Bhatia. The film is a prequel to the 2015 film Baby with Taapsee Pannu reprising her role as Shabana. It also stars Manoj Bajpayee, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Anupam Kher and Akshay Kumar returned in a cameo appearance. The film was dubbed into Telugu and Tamil languages and released on 31 March 2017. The Tamil title was Naanthan Shabana whereas the Telugu title was Nene Shabana.