Cinemaazi remembers Kamini Kaushal on her death anniversary

Many decades before the Cannes Film Festival became the ‘it’ event across the globe, Kamini Kaushal featured in Chetan Anand’s social realist drama, Neecha Nagar (1946), which was screened at the first Cannes Film Festival. It won the top prize (then called the Grand Prix), the only Indian film to have done so till date.Kamini Kaushal’s latest outing on the big screen was as Shahid Kapoor’s grandmother in Kabir Singh (2019). This makes it 73 years that she has been active in films—astounding, when you consider that veterans like Ashok Kumar and Dev Anand enjoyed careers that spanned 61 and 65 years respectively.