Kamini Kaushal, one of Hindi cinema’s earliest female stars whose career spanned more than seven decades, died at her Mumbai home. She was 98. An official statement from her family is awaited.

Born as Uma Kashyap in 1927, Kaushal made her debut with Chetan Anand’s Neecha Nagar (1946), the first Indian film to win the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Through the late 1940s and ’50s, she became one of the industry’s highest-paid leading ladies, starring opposite Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand and Raj Kapoor. Some of her notable films from the period include Do Bhai (1947), Shaheed (1948), Nadiya Ke Paar (1948), Ziddi (1948), Shabnam (1949), Biraj Bahu (1954), for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress, Jailor (1958) and Godaan (1963).

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