It was a love story that could not be. Kamini Kaushal and Dilip Kumar worked together in “Shaheed” and developed a fondness for each other but the actress, who was already married to her late sister’s husband, chose to end things between them and it left them both “shattered”.

Kaushal, who passed away at the age of 98 in her Mumbai home on Thursday night, made a spectacular debut with 1946 movie “Neecha Nagar”, which went on to win the Grand Prix award at the inaugural Cannes Film Festival.

Counted among the highest paid actresses of the 1940s and 1950s, Kaushal featured with Kumar first in “Shaheed” (1948), followed by hits “Nadiya Ke Paar” the same year, “Shabnam” in 1949 and “Arzoo” in 1950.

At the time, Kaushal was already married to brother-in-law BS Sood, the chief engineer at the

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