Kajol is well known for her acting prowess, exuberance, and a
family of successful filmi-types. She is vulnerable, fierce,
and a complete natural.
The Fourth Generation
Kajol was born to actress Tanuja and film producer Shomu
Mukherjee on 5 August 1975. She was born into a
Bengali-Marathi family. Her family reads like the who’s who of
the film industry – great grandmother Rattan Bai; maternal
grandmother Shobana Samarth; maternal aunt Nutan who won five
Filmfare Best Actress Awards; paternal uncles Joy and Deb
Mukherjee who were producers; paternal grandfather Sashadhar
Mukherjee, a filmmaker married to Satirani Devi, the sister of
Ashok Kumar, Anup Kumar and Kishore Kumar; sister Tanisha;
husband Ajay Devgan; cousins Rani Mukherji and Mohnish Behl.
