Kajol is an Indian actress who is known for her work in Hindi films and has also acted in 2 Tamil films. She made her screen debut in the 1992 film Bekhudi. She was noted for her performance and went on to sign the 1993 commercially successful thriller Baazigar opposite Shah Rukh Khan. She starred in the 1994 film Udhaar Ki Zindagi, which earned her critical acclaim. This was followed by a role in Yeh Dillagi alongside Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. Kajol featured in five films in 1995. She appeared briefly in the thriller Karan Arjun, and played Simran, an NRI in Aditya Chopra’s romance Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, both of which ranked among the highest-grossing Bollywood films of the year, and the success of the latter established her career in Bollywood. As of 2021, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge is the longest-running Indian film. Also in 1995, she appeared in the box-office flops Hulchul and Gundaraj. Her only screen appearance of 1996 was in Bambai Ka Babu, a financial failure.

In 1997, Kajol featured in the film Minsara Kanavu, her first Tamil feature. She played an obsessive lover in the mystery film Gupt (1997), and became the first woman to win the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role. Later in 1997, she featured as a poor girl in the romantic film Ishq, a box-office hit. In 1998, she played the leading lady in three romantic comedies, which were among the top-grossing Bollywood productions of the year — Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya, Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha, and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. Also in 1998, she played dual roles in the drama Dushman. The following year, she played the secret lover of Ajay Devgn's character in Dil Kya Kare and starred in the commercially successful film Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain opposite Anil Kapoor. Following this, she starred in the films Raju Chacha (2000) and Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi (2001), both of which performed poorly at the box-office.

Kajol played opposite Khan in Karan Johar's ensemble melodrama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), which became the highest-grossing Bollywood film in overseas to that point. After a five-year absence from film, Kajol played a blind Kashmiri girl in the romantic thriller Fanaa (2006) opposite Aamir Khan. The film, which was based on terrorism, was a commercial success. Two years later, she featured as a talent judge for the television dance and singing reality show Rock-N-Roll Family. Later that year, she was paired with her husband Ajay Devgn in the romantic comedy U Me Aur Hum (2008). In the film, Kajol played an Alzheimer's patient. In 2010, she reunited with Khan and Johar in the drama My Name Is Khan, in which she played an Indian-American Hindu married to a Muslim man. For the film, she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for a record tying fifth time. Her next appearance of the year was in the family drama We Are Family, an adaption of the 1998 Hollywood film Stepmom.

In 2015, after five years, she made her comeback with Rohit Shetty's Dilwale, one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all time. In 2017, she was seen in Soundarya Rajnikanth's film Velaiilla Pattadhari 2, which was a profitable venture. She played a single mother who gives up her career as an aspiring singer in Pradeep Sarkar's family drama, Helicopter Eela, which didn't do well. After an absence in 2019, she starred in Tanhaji (2020), which was a major critical and commercial success. In 2021, she was praised for her portrayal of a woman with a traumatic childhood in the Netflix family drama Tribhanga.

Films

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes	Ref.
1992	Bekhudi	Radhika
1993	Baazigar	Priya Chopra
1994	Yeh Dillagi	Sapna
	Udhaar Ki Zindagi	Sita
1995	Karan Arjun	Sonia Saxena
	Taaqat	Kavita
	Hulchul	Sharmili Sinha
	Gundaraj	Ritu
	Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge	Simran Singh
1996	Bambai Ka Babu	Neha
1997	Minsara Kanavu	Priya	Tamil film
	Gupt	Isha Diwan
	Hameshaa	Rani Sharma/ Reshma
	Ishq	Kajal Jindal
1998	Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya	Muskaan Thakur
	Duplicate	Simran Singh	Cameo
	Dushman	Naina/Sonia Sehgal
	Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha	Sanjana Patel
	Kuch Kuch Hota Hai	Anjali Sharma
1999	Dil Kya Kare	Nandita Rai
	Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain	Megha Verma
	Hote Hote Pyar Ho Gaya	Pinky
2000	Raju Chacha	Sanjana Bakshi/ Anna
2001	Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi	Sweety/Tina Khanna
	Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...	Anjali Sharma Raichand
2003	Kal Ho Naa Ho	Herself	Cameo in song "Maahi Ve"
2006	Fanaa	Zooni Ali Beg	Also playback singer for song "Mere Haath Mein"
	Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	Herself	Cameo in song "Rock N Roll Soniye"
2007	Om Shanti Om	Herself	Cameo in song "Deewangi Deewangi"
2008	U Me Aur Hum	Piya Mehra
	Haal-e-dil	Herself	Cameo in song "Oye Hoye"
	Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi	Nargis	Cameo in song "Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte"
2010	My Name Is Khan	Mandira Rathod Khan
	We Are Family	Maya
	Toonpur Ka Superhero	Priya Verma Kumar	Animated film
2012	Student of the Year	Herself	Cameo in song "Disco Deewane"
2015	Dilwale	Meera Malik
2017	Velaiilla Pattadhari 2	Vasundhara Parameshwar	Tamil film
2018	Helicopter Eela	Eela Raiturkar
	Zero	Herself	Cameo
2020	Tanhaji	Savitri Bai
	Devi	Jyoti	Short film
2021	Tribhanga	Anuradha Apte
2022	Salaam Venky	Kolavennu Sujata Krishnan
2023	Lust Stories 2	Devyani Singh	Segment: "Tilchatta"
2024	Sarzameen †	TBA	Completed
	Do Patti †	TBA
	Maa †	TBA
2025	Maharagni- Queen of Queens †	Maya	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2008	Rock-N-Roll Family	Judge
2023	The Trial	Noyonika Sengupta

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Kajol