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Celebrities / Actress

Kajol

Actress

Kajol is an Indian actress whose pairing with Shah Rukh Khan in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham remains a reference point for Hindi romantic cinema.

Kajol, born 5 August 1974, is from the Mukherjee-Samarth family. Bekhudi (1992) was the debut. Baazigar (1993) opposite Shah Rukh Khan made the pairing, and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) made it permanent. She has never worked as often as her male co-stars. The films that remain are Baazigar, DDLJ, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Fanaa and My Name Is Khan.

She is married to Ajay Devgn. Their daughter Nysa is not a performer on this site, and this page does not treat her as one.

Awards and honours

  • Filmfare Award for Best Actress for Baazigar, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and Fanaa. Five Best Actress wins is the published Filmfare count.
  • Padma Shri, 2011.

Films, dramas and shows

YearTitleRoleNote
1993BaazigarPriyaAbbas-Mustan. Opposite Shah Rukh Khan.
1995Dilwale Dulhania Le JayengeSimranAditya Chopra.
1998Kuch Kuch Hota HaiAnjaliKaran Johar.
2001Kabhi Khushi Kabhie GhamAnjaliThe woman Rahul marries against his father.
2006FanaaZooniKunal Kohli. Aamir Khan. A Filmfare Best Actress win.
2010My Name Is KhanMandiraKaran Johar.

Known for

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge · Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham

Work on ShowBuzz

  • Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

    Film · 1995. Raj and Simran meet on a European trip. Her father has already promised her to someone else. Aditya Chopra’s film, produced by Yash Raj, is the romantic template a generation of Hindi cinema copied, including the rule that the father has to say yes.

  • Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham

    Film · 2001. A rich Delhi family splits when the adopted son marries against his father’s wish. Karan Johar directs. It is melodrama at full volume, and it is the family film a huge diaspora audience still puts on.

  • Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

    Film · 1998. Karan Johar’s first film. A college triangle becomes, eight years later, a father’s attempt to keep a promise to his wife. Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol lead. Salman Khan plays Aman. It is one of the films that fixed the late-1990s Dharma look.

  • My Name Is Khan

    Film · 2010. Rizwan Khan, a Muslim man with Asperger’s, crosses America after 9/11 to tell the president that his name is Khan and he is not a terrorist. Karan Johar directs. Shibani Bathija wrote it. Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol lead.