Chandrakant Gokhale is the father of Vikram Gokhale (occasionally credited as Vikram Gokhle), a well-known Indian film, television and stage actor.

Around 1912-1913, Dadasaheb Phalke, the pioneering film-maker of India, was casting for his film Mohini Bhasmasur and he chose Kamlabai for the lead.

Phalke had been forced to use a young male cook, Salunke, to play the female lead in his earlier film, Raja Harishchandra, because of the lack of an actress.

However, his voice was breaking, so he moved to his brother's company, which was the same one where Kamlabai and her mother were employed.

In the 1930s, Kamlabai worked under Veer Savarkar in the play Ushaap, which focussed on the plight of Harijans.