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Kamini Kaushal (born 16 January 1927) is a Hindi film and television actress, most noted for her roles in films like ''Neecha Nagar'' (1946) which won the 1946 Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at Cannes Film Festival and ''Biraj Bahu'' (1955) which won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award in 1955.〔(Biraj Bahu awards ), Internet Movie Database〕 She played lead heroine in films from 1946 to 1963 wherein her roles in Do Bhai, Shaheed(1948), Ziddi, Shabnam, Nadiya Ke Paar, Arzoo, Paras(1949), Namoona, Jhanjar, Aabru, Night Club, Jailor, Bade Sarkar and Godaan are considered her career's best performances. She played character roles since 1963 and was critically acclaimed for her performances in Shaheed (1965), Prem Nagar, Do Raaste, Anhonee (1973 film) and 8 films with Manoj Kumar. ==Early life== Kamnini Kaushal was born Uma Kashyap in Lahore on January 16, 1927.〔 She was the youngest among two brothers and three sisters. Kamini Kaushal was the daughter of Prof Shiv Ram Kasyap Professor of Botany, Punjab University at Lahore, British India (now in Pakistan). Prof Kashyap is widely regarded as father of Indian Botany.〔"College Botany" by Ganguli, das and Dutta (Calcutta 1972)〕 Her father was a distinguished botanist who discovered six species of plants.While she was only seven when her father died on November 26, 1934.〔 She did her B.A. (honours) in English literature from Kinnaird College in Lahore. She got an offer to act in films through Chetan Anand in 1946 for the film Neecha Nagar. She quoted in an interview, talking about her teenage days, “I had no time to fool. I didn’t have any crush, I was busy swimming, riding, skating and doing radio plays on Akashwani, for which I was paid Rupees 10."〔 When her elder sister died in a car accident,〔 leaving behind two daughters, Kaushal decided to marry her brother-in-law, B.S. Sood, in 1948 and she set up home in Bombay where her husband was an chief engineer in the Bombay Port Trust.〔〔 Her elder sister's daughters are Kumkum Somani and Kavita Sahni. Kumkum Somani has written a book for children on Gandhi's philosophy and Kavita Sahni is an artist.〔 Kamini had 3 sons after 1955, from her marriage with B.S.Sood - Rahul, Vidur and Shravan.〔 In the 1950s the couple lived in a huge, sprawling, spacious manor-type house "Gateside" in Mazagaon which was allotted to her husband by BPT.〔(Stars At Home – Kamini Kaushal ), "cineplot.com"〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kamini Kaushal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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