Overview
- A close family friend, Sajan Narain, told PTI she died at her Mumbai home late Thursday night and requested privacy for the family.
- No cause of death has been disclosed, and the family has not issued a formal statement.
- Born Uma Kashyap in Lahore in 1927, she became one of the highest‑paid leading actresses of the late 1940s and early 1950s, starring opposite Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand and Raj Kapoor.
- She later shifted to character roles, worked in television and children’s programming, and returned to mainstream films with Kabir Singh (2019) and a cameo in Laal Singh Chaddha (2022).
- She is survived by her sons—Shravan, Vidur and Rahul Sood—as colleagues including Kareena Kapoor Khan, Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani shared condolences.