Kajol Devgan commonly known as Kajol is a famous Bollywood actress who has given many blockbusters mainly Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge ( 1995 ) as Simran and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai ( 1998 ) as Anjali . She was also offered 3 Idiots ( 2009 ) one of the biggest commercial and critical hits of Bollywood before Kareena Kapoor but she refused the offer as the role was too small for his liking . She was the one of the most successful actress of 90’s as she was associated with many big hits of that time like Baazigar ( 1993 ) , Karan Arjun ( 1995 ), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge ( 1995 ) , Gupt: The Hidden Truth ( 1996 ) Kuch Kuch Hota Hai ( 1998 ), Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha ( 1998 ) , Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya ( 1998 ) and Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain ( 1999 ) . Kajol started her film career with Bekhudi which was released on 31 July 1992 .

Kajol was born in Mumbai to Tanuja, one of the leading actress of Bollywood in the 60’s and Shomu Mukherjee who was a film director and producer. He died in 2008 after suffering cardiac arrest. Her younger sister, Tanishaa is also an actress. Kajol hails from the Mukherjee-Samarth film family, a well-known family in Bollywood . Kajol holds the record of most Filmfare Best Actress award jointly with her maternal aunt Nutan one of the top actress of her era. and Kajol maternal grandmother, Shobhna Samarth, and great grandmother, Rattan Bai, both worked in many films as leading actress during 30’s to 50’s period .

Kajol worked in 32 films till 10 January 2020 , her last release was Tanhaji . Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge , Kuch Kuch Hota Hai , Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and Tanhaji are the biggest hits in his career . Kajol has done special appearance in films also like Kal Ho Naa Ho ( 2003 ) ,Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna ( 2005 ), Om Shanti Om ( 2007 ) , Student of the Year ( 2012 ) and Zero ( 2018 ) . Karan Johar considered Kajol as lucky charm so she was in almost all films of Karan Johar as a leading actress or in a special role except in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil ( 2016 ) .