Kajol Devgan is a famed Indian actress born on August 5, 1974, in Mumbai. She is widely known for her role as Simran Singh in the movie Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge. She stands up with her interest in acting and dancing from a very young age. Her parents separated when she was too childlike. She set her career in acting when she was only sixteen. Also, she dropped out of school to pursue her acting career. She obtained lots of success at a youthful age.
Her aunt Nutan Bahl and Kajol Devgan herself had a record of achieving the maximum 5 Best Actress awards. She is honored with the prestigious award Padma Shri in 2011 by the Government of India. Her other movies which credited her as a famous actress are Fanaa (2006), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Baazigar (1993), My Name is Khan (2010), and many more. The star Kajol hitched on February 24, 1999, to Ajay Devgan. she is the receiver of countless awards which included six Filmfare Awards.
Kajol Devgan Company, Height, Weight and Her Relationship
Popular Kajol Devgan settled a company named Devgan Films in 2009. She throws light on that she did not associate with the Production part but participated in overlooking and supervising. She had participated in many world tour programs including ‘Awesome Foursome’ with Juhi Chawla, Shahrukh Khan, and Akshay Kumar. After wandering more world tours like Canada, the United States, United Kingdom she denied participating more. Kajol Devgan’s height is about 161 centimeters and 5’3 in feet inches. Her weight is approximately 57 kg. The color of her eye is Hazel and Black is the color of her hair. Her zodiac sign is said to be Leo.
Kajol Devgan: She had titled a part-time member of the popular broadcaster Prasar Bharti in 2016. Apart from that she has scripted a foreword of a biography on Sridevi, a famous actress titled Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess. The media tagged the couple Ajay Devgan and Kajol Devgan as an ‘unlikely pair’ because of their contrasting personalities. The love birds further hitched in a formal way. Also, much criticism aroused on the media platform regarding Kajol’s settlement at the peak of her career. Further, she explained she would not quit movies but level down on the number of her efforts in her career which she did.
Kajol Devgan: Educational Career and Acting
Star Kajol Devgan pursued her education at St Joseph’s Convent School in Panchgani. Along with her studies, she also had an interest in co-curricular activities and participated there such as dancing. It was during her school time she built a dynamic interest in reading fiction. Which supported Kajol Devgan in bad times in her life. Tanuja strive to direct a movie to set up her as an actress but the movie suspended after a few days in the initial 1990s. At the age of 16 Kajol Devgan started to work on Bekhudi which as per her was a great dose of good luck. She planned to go back to school after the shooting but she dropped down to make an acting career full-time.
Her Movies and Success
The star-famed Kajol Devgan affirmed her acting debut in a romantic drama in 1992 at the age of 17. She casts with another debutant named Kamal Sadanah and with her mother Tanuja. The movie got to be a flop at the box office. The succeeding year she signed the movie of Abbas Mustan’s Baazigar (1993) a crime thriller. This movie builds up as the highest-grossing movie of the year with revenues of Rs 182.5 million. Co-acting Shilpa Shetty and Shahrukh Khan. This film spotted her many collaboration with Khan. Although she has been criticized for her looks, well her performance extracts crucial attention.
Accordingly, Kajol Devgan made the intended decision to sign up for lighter movies in which she has a small role without extreme dramatic efforts including Gundaraj, Hulchul, and Karan Arjun all premiered a year later. She possessed two commercial successes opposite Shahrukh Khan in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge and Karan Arjun. Kajol Devgan talk about the role of Simran who she had emotional involvement and attachment to the project. This is the most victorious movie of all time in India. The movie excels in 1000 weeks of screening in 2014 including extensive running Indian movie ever.
Further movies Kajol Devgan signed are Gupt: The Hidden Truth, Hameshaa, and Ishq. Kajol strengthens her status as a leading actor by appearing in three top-grossing productions of the year Pyar Toh Hona Hi Tha, Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna Kya, and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. All these movies get nominations for Filmfare Awards for Best Film at the concluding achieving it. Kuch Kuch Hota hai pop up to be an all-time blockbuster in India and overseas. It is the first attribute to be shot in Scotland.
Kajol Devgan: Career Variation and Break
The movie Dil Kya Kare, the first release after Kajol Devgan‘s marriage was like an ‘Acid Test’ for her. She explained that she received the role uniquely because it has grey shades and commercially the movie did not go well. The further movies that she signed were well with critics like Hum Apke Dil Me Rehte Hain and the final release Hote Hote Pyar Ho Gya of the year. Kajol Devgan further also performed as a leading actress in Karan Johar’s troupe drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham which emerged as high grossing Indian production of all time in the foreign market. The Punjabi dialect and comic dramatic performance ushered her to achieve a third Filmfare Award in the Best Actress categorization.
Her Discontinuation Work
Kajol Devgan appeared in the romantic thriller Fanaa in 2006 marking the return of Kajol in movies. This movie gets a financial success. She worked as disconnected through the rest of the decade. Kajol further signed My Name is Khan in 2010. And this is the first movie allocated by Fox Star Studios. It unlocked as a blend of positive reviews. This movie screened at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. This movie is appreciative of the discrimination. That faced by Muslims in America after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Kajol Devgan: Net Worth Per Annum and her Comeback in Dilwale
The famous Kajol Devgan then teamed up with Shahrukh Khan for the 7th time in Dilwale which is a romance in 2015. Reviewers were miscellaneous in their opinions about the movie. Later that year she emerged as debut producer at Vitti Dandu a Marathi period drama co-produced by her husband Ajay Devgan traversing the relationship between a grandson and his grandfather. The movie gained the Best Marathi Film award at the Screen Awards and was well-received by critics. Kajol Devgan has a colorful journey in Velaiilla Pattadhari 2, Helicopter Eela and Tanhaji, etc. Tanhaji received the top-grossing movie of the year earning Rs 3.67 billion.
Kajol’s Parents, Siblings, and Family Background
Kajol Devgan was born in Mumbai on August 5, 1974. Her mother is an actress Tanuja while Shomu Mukherjee her father was a movie producer and director. Tanishaa who is also an actress is her younger sister. She had her maternal aunt Nutan who was an actress and Shobhna Samarth as her maternal grandmother. Also, Rattan Bai and her great-grandmother were both involved in Hindi films. Her paternal uncle Deb Mukherjee and Joy Mukherjee are movie producers. While Kajol Devgan‘s maternal and paternal grandfathers Kumarsen Samarth and Sashadhar Mukherjee respectively were filmmakers. Her cousins Sharbani Mukherjee, Rani Mukherjee, and Mohnish Behl are also actors. Whereas Ayan Mukherji is a director.
Kajol’s Husband and Children
Kajol Devgan has been hitched to the filmmaker and actor Ajay Devgan. She has had two children since 1999. She started dating the actor in 1994 while shooting Gundaraj. The duo gets married on February 24, 1999, in a Conventional Maharashtrian ceremony in Devgan’s home. She is a mother of a girl Nysa born on April 20, 2003, and after 7 years Yug her son was born on September 13, 2010. Nysa Devgan is presently studying at Singapore University. Like other kids, she has not yet declared to follow her famous parents and join as an actress.
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