33 Facts About Kamini Kaushal

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Kamini Kaushal was born on as Uma Kashyap, 24 February 1927 and is an Indian actress who worked in Hindi films and television.

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Kamini Kaushal is noted for her roles in films such as, which won the 1946 at Cannes Film Festival and Biraj Bahu, which won her the Filmfare Award for Best Actress in 1955.

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Kamini Kaushal played lead heroine in films from 1946 to 1963, wherein her roles in Do Bhai, Shaheed, Nadiya Ke Paar, Ziddi, Shabnam, Paras, Namoona, Arzoo, Jhanjar, Aabroo, Bade Sarkar, Jailor, Night Club and Godaan are considered her career's best performances.

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Kamini Kaushal played character roles since 1963, and was critically acclaimed for her performance in Shaheed.

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Kamini Kaushal is the youngest of two brothers and three sisters.

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Kamini Kaushal's father was a distinguished botanist who discovered six species of plants.

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Kamini Kaushal was only nine when her father died on 26 November 1934.

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Kamini Kaushal got an offer to act in films through Chetan Anand in 1946 with.

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Kamini Kaushal set up home in Bombay where her husband was a chief engineer in Bombay Port Trust.

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Kamini Kaushal had three sons after 1955, Rahul, Vidur and Shravan.

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Kamini Kaushal had been a stage actress in Delhi during her college days from 1942 to 1945.

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Kamini Kaushal worked as a radio child artist with the name "Uma" in Lahore before the Partition, from 1937 to 1940.

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Kamini Kaushal became the first leading heroine to continue working as lead film heroine after her marriage as well.

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Kamini Kaushal was one of the first well educated heroines in Hindi cinema.

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Kamini Kaushal learnt Bharatnatyam at Mumbai's Sri Rajarajeswari Bharata Natya Kala Mandir, where Guru T K Mahalingam Pillai, doyen among nattuvanars taught.

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Since 1948, Kamini Kaushal worked with all the top leading men of her time, such as Ashok Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Raaj Kumar and Dilip Kumar.

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Kamini Kaushal was paired opposite Dev Anand in his very first success, Bombay Talkies' production Ziddi, a light romance.

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Kamini Kaushal played the third angle to the Dev-Suraiya pair in Shayar.

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Kamini Kaushal was the first lead heroine for whom Lata Mangeshkar ever sang for and it was for the film Ziddi in 1948.

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Kamini Kaushal did lighthearted roles in Chalis Baba Ek Chor and did serious tragedy genre roles in Aas, Ansoo and Jailor.

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Trilok Jetley, who adopted Premchand's famous story Godaan on screen, put his film on hold, while Kamini Kaushal was pregnant with her second child, because he wanted to capitalise on the softness in her voice.

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Kamini Kaushal made the transition from playing leading heroine roles to character roles very easily.

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Kamini Kaushal's performances were appreciated in Waris, Vishwas, Yakeen, Aadmi Aur Insaan, Uphaar, Qaid, Bhanwar, Tangewala and Heeralaal Pannalaal.

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Kamini Kaushal has had a long stint in films with releases till 2014.

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Kamini Kaushal stunned audiences by playing a mercenary vamp with aplomb in the film Anhonee.

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Kamini Kaushal played mother to Rajesh Khanna in Prem Nagar in 1974, and in in 1976, and as sister in law to Khanna in Do Raaste.

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Dilip Kumar, in his biography, has admitted his attraction to her while they acted in films together, but Kamini Kaushal rejected his proposal as she was already married to her elder sister's widower and was taking care of her elder sister's kids.

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Kamini Kaushal made a popular puppet show broadcast on the national channel at the time, "Doordarshan", which ran for a year, and was the first such children's series in Hindi.

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Kamini Kaushal dabbled in television doing serials such as Chand Sitare on Doordarshan.

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Kamini Kaushal appeared in The Jewel in the Crown, a popular British television serial, as Aunt Shalini.

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Kamini Kaushal worked in the highly popular serial Shanno Ki Shaadi, on StarPlus.

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Kamini Kaushal played Bebe, the grandmother of Shanno, the main protagonist played by Divya Dutta.

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Kamini Kaushal acted in Sri Adhikari Brothers' TV Serial Waqt Ki Raftaar.