Ifirst met Kamini Kaushal through my filmmaker friend Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, who wanted to cast her in a television commercial. I went along because I was a big admirer and wanted to meet her.

This was sometime in 2009. The meeting went off differently than I’d hoped. Once talk about the commercial was over, I naturally wanted to chat with Kaushal about her movie career and working with some of the luminaries of Hindi cinema.

After all, Kaushal, an all-time great herself, began working in films way back in the 1940s and was an integral part of the 1950s, which is considered Hindi cinema’s golden age. Her career began with an early social realist film, Chetan Anand’s Neecha Nagar (1946). The longevity of Kaushal’s career can be gauged by the fact that she played Shahid Kapoor’s unde

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