The Lahore-bred Kamini
Kaushal entered films with Chetan Anand's Neecha Nagar (1946), one
of the earliest serious films to be made
in India. She played a sympathetic
role which castigated class diffe-
rences and won an award at the
Montreal Film Festival.

Commercial success came
her way only with Filmistan's
Do Bhai (1947). She followed it
up with successes like Shaheed, Nadiya Ke Paar and Shabnam
and was noticed in a spate of early
but important films for the emer-
ging triumvirate of Hindi films:
Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand and
Dilip Kumar.

Her pairing with Dilip Kumar was much talked about in the 1940s. Along with Nargis and Suraiya, she was one of the reigning queens of the day.

Kamini Kaushal


Major Films

Neecha Nagar (1946)
Shaheed (1948)
Aag(1948)
Ziddi (1948)
Shabnam (1949)
Aarzoo (1950)
Biraj Bahu (1954)