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ACTOR

Kajol

Known for
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Do Patti (2024), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)

24 archived facts 3 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026

Kajol is an actor best known for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Do Patti and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham....

Kajol over the years

Kajol in 2010 (age 36)
2010 · age 36Gochaaa18, CC0
Kajol in 2025 (age 51)
2025 · age 51Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0

24 Interesting Facts About Kajol

Interesting Facts (10)

  1. #001

    Kajol married Ajay Devgn in a quiet ceremony with only a few close friends and relatives, and the couple spent a two-month honeymoon traveling the world, from Sydney to Cairo. Afterward she kept working in a few select films, perhaps one or two a year.

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  2. #002

    Kajol turned down many roles because of her pregnancy and then suffered a miscarriage.

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  3. #003

    Kajol shot Fanaa in the mountains of southern Poland.

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  4. #004

    Kajol and Ajay have a daughter, Nysa.

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  5. #005

    In 2018 Kajol unveiled her wax figure at Madame Tussauds in London, and in 2011 the Government of India awarded her the Padma Shri.

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  6. #006

    Kajol's cousins Rani Mukerji, Sharbani Mukherjee and Mohnish Behl are actors too, and Ayan Mukerji is a director.

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  7. #007

    Kajol and Ajay Devgn have a daughter named Nysa.

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  8. #008

    Kajol's cousin Toy "Monjoy" Mukherjee was set to debut as a leading man in 2003 in a film his father, Joy Mukherjee, was producing, but it was shelved because of Joy's health.

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  9. #009

    In 1999 Kajol's cousin Toy "Monjoy" Mukherjee released a pop album, "Yuhin Kabhi."

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  10. #010

    Kajol was in "Junglee," a shelved film directed by Rahul Rawail and co-starring Govinda.

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Characters & Cast (2)

  1. #011

    Kajol was first choice for the role Manisha Koirala played in Dil Se.

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  2. #012

    Kajol was first choice for the part Amisha Patel played in Gaddar.

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Life & Family (12)

  1. #013

    In 2001 Kajol stepped away from Bollywood for a while to spend more time with her family.

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  2. #014

    Kajol comes from four generations of actresses: her mother Tanuja Samarth, aunt Nutan, maternal grandmother Shobhna Samarth and great-grandmother Rattan Bai were each film stars of their era.

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  3. #015

    Kajol's grandfather was producer Probodh Mukerji, whose sons Tapan and Basu worked in film distribution.

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  4. #016

    Kajol's father, Shomu Mukherjee, was best friends with Pete (Ganesh) Gavankar, maternal nephew of sound recordist Mangesh Desai, who later produced Rahul Dev Burman's international album Pantera. Pete moved to Chicago, Illinois, in the 1970s and became quite well known, and his daughter is singer and actress Janina Gavankar.

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  5. #017

    Kajol's father, Shomu Mukherjee, was best friends with Pete (Ganesh) Gavankar, whose daughter is a world-famous journalist and Miss District of Columbia 1997.

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  6. #018

    Kajol's father, Shomu, was best friends with Pete Gavankar, father of Hollywood actress Janina Gavankar. In the early 2000s Janina went to India with her father to shoot the Bollywood film "Naam Mera Maria" (Aankhon Mein Sapne Liye), directed by her aunt, Nilu Gavankar. Samraat Mukherjee, whose father Ronu Mukherjee was also Pete's best friend, was in it too, but for unknown reasons the film was never released.

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  7. #019

    In the early 2000s, Janina Gavankar traveled to India with her father to make the Bollywood film "Naam Mera Maria" (Aankhon Mein Sapne Liye), directed by her aunt, Nilu Gavankar, and co-starring Kajol's cousin Samraat Mukherjee, whose father, Ronu Mukherjee, was Pete Gavankar's best friend. For reasons unknown, it was never released.

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  8. #020

    Kajol's grandfather was producer Ravidramohan Mukherjee, father of director Shurjeet Mukherji.

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  9. #021

    Nutan's younger brother, Jaideep Samarth, has a daughter, Mayuri, who was to be launched as an actress in a Tanuja home production directed by Chandra Barot, but the film was shelved.

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  10. #022

    Kajol's aunt Chatura, her mother's sister, has a daughter, actress Shilpa Mukherji, who played Sita in Sanjay Khan's Jai Hanuman. Sawan Kumar Tak later spotted her, renamed her "Jeena Mukherjee" and planned to launch her opposite Rekha in "Mother," but she hadn't told him about Jai Hanuman, and when he found out he angrily dropped her and signed Sanobar Kabir instead. Shilpa is now a well-known photographer who works with disabled children.

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  11. #023

    Producer Sunita Gowarikar, Ashutosh Gowarikar's wife and daughter of Kajol's uncle Deb Mukherjee, is Kajol's cousin.

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  12. #024

    Kajol's uncle Jaideep Samarth has a daughter, Mayuri, who was meant to debut as an actress in a Tanuja home production directed by Chandra Barot, until Tanuja shelved the film.

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