Kajol filmography
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Kajol is an Indian actress who is known for her work in Bollywood films. She made her screen debut in the 1992 film Bekhudi, a commercial failure.[1] She, however, was noted for her performance and went on to sign the 1993 commercially successful thriller Baazigar opposite Shah Rukh Khan.[2][3] She starred in the 1994 film Udhaar Ki Zindagi, which earned her critical acclaim.[4] 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,[5][6] both of which ranked among the highest-grossing Bollywood films of the year,[7] and the success of the latter established her career in Bollywood.[8] As of 2014, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge is the longest running Indian film.[a] Also in 1995, she appeared in the box-office flops Hulchul and Gundaraj.[7][11] Her only screen appearance of 1996 was in Bambai Ka Babu, a financial failure.[12]
In 1997, Kajol featured in the film Minsara Kanavu, her first Tamil feature.[13] 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.[14][15] Later in 1997, she featured as a poor girl in the romantic film Ishq,[16] a box-office hit.[17] 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.[18] Also in 1998, she played dual roles in the drama Dushman. The following year, she played the mistress of Ajay Devgn's character in Dil Kya Kare and starred in the commercially successful film Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain.[19][20] 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.[12]
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.[21][22] After a five-year absence from film, Kajol played a blind Kashmiri girl in the romantic thriller Fanaa (2006).[23] The film, which was based on terrorism, was a commercial success.[24][25] 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.[26] 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.[27] For the film, she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for a record tying fifth time.[b] Her next appearance of the year was in the family drama We Are Family, an adaption of the 1998 Hollywood film Stepmom.[29]
In 2015, after five years, she made her comeback with Rohit Shetty's Dilwale, one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all time.[30] 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.[31][32]
Films
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | Title[c] | Role(s) | Director | Notes | Ref. |
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1992 | Bekhudi | Radhika | Rahul Rawail | [33] | |
1993 | Baazigar | Priya Chopra | Abbas–Mustan | [34] | |
1994 | Udhaar Ki Zindagi | Sita | K.V. Raju | [35] | |
Yeh Dillagi | Sapna | Naresh Malhotra | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [36] [37] | |
1995 | Karan Arjun | Sonia Saxena | Rakesh Roshan | [38] | |
Taaqat | Kavita | Talat Jani | [39] | ||
Hulchul | Sharmili | Anees Bazmee | [40] | ||
Gundaraj | Ritu | Guddu Dhanoa | [41] | ||
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge | Simran Singh | Aditya Chopra | Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [6] | |
1996 | Bambai Ka Babu | Neha | Vikram Bhatt | [42] | |
1997 | Gupt: The Hidden Truth | Isha Diwan | Rajiv Rai | Filmfare Award for Best Villain | [14] |
Hameshaa | Rani/Reshma Sharma[d] | Sanjay Gupta | [46] | ||
Minsara Kanavu | Priya Amalraj | Rajiv Menon | Tamil film | [47] | |
Ishq | Kajal | Indra Kumar | [48] | ||
1998 | Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya | Muskaan Thakur | Sohail Khan | [49] | |
Duplicate | Unknown | Mahesh Bhatt | Special appearance | [50] | |
Dushman | Naina/Sonia Saigal[d] | Tanuja Chandra | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [51] [37] | |
Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha | Sanjana | Anees Bazmee | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [52] [37] | |
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai | Anjali Sharma | Karan Johar | Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [28] | |
1999 | Dil Kya Kare | Nandita Rai | Prakash Jha | [53] | |
Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain | Megha | Satish Kaushik | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [54] [37] | |
Hote Hote Pyar Ho Gaya | Pinky | Firoz Irani | [55] | ||
2000 | Raju Chacha | Anna/Sanjana | Anil Devgan | [56] | |
2001 | Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi | Sweety/Tina Khanna[d] | Rahul Rawail | [57] | |
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... | Anjali Sharma Raichand | Karan Johar | Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [28] | |
2003 | Kal Ho Naa Ho | Herself | Nikhil Advani | Special appearance in song "Maahi Ve" | [58] |
2006 | Fanaa | Zooni Ali Baig | Kunal Kohli | Filmfare Award for Best Actress Also playback singer for song "Mere Haath Mein" |
[28] [59] |
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna | Herself | Karan Johar | Special appearance in song "Rock N Roll Soniye" | [60] | |
2007 | Om Shanti Om | Herself | Farah Khan | Special appearance in song "Deewangi Deewangi" | [61] |
2008 | U Me Aur Hum | Piya | Ajay Devgan | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [37] [62] |
Haal–e–dil | Herself | Anil Devgan | Special appearance in song "Oye Hoye" | [63] | |
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi | Nargis (portrays) | Aditya Chopra | Special appearance in song "Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte" | [64] | |
2010 | My Name Is Khan | Mandira Khan | Karan Johar | Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [28] |
We Are Family | Maya | Siddharth Malhotra | [65] | ||
Toonpur Ka Super Hero | Priya Shruti Verma | Kireet Khurana | Animated film | [66] | |
2012 | Makkhi | Mother (voice) | For the Hindi dubbed version | [67] | |
Student of the Year | Herself | Karan Johar | Special appearance in song "The Disco Song" | [68] | |
2015 | Dilwale | Meera Dev Malik | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [69] [70] | |
2017 | Velaiilla Pattadhari 2 | Vasundhara Parameshwar | Soundarya Rajinikanth | Bilingual film (Tamil, Telugu as VIP 2) | [71] |
2018 | Incredibles 2 | Elastigirl (Voice) | For the Hindi dubbed version | [72] | |
Helicopter Eela | Eela Raitukar | [73] | |||
Zero | Herself | Cameo appearance | [74] | ||
2020 | Savitribai Malusare | Om Raut | [31] | ||
Devi | Jyoti | Priyanka Banerjee | Short film | [75] | |
TBA | Tribhanga - Tedhi Medhi Crazy
† |
Anu | Renuka Shahne | Netflix film Post-Production |
[76] |
Television
Title | Year | Role | Channel | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Rock-N-Roll Family | 2008 | Judge | Zee TV | [77] |
See also
Notes
Footnotes
- ^ As of December 2014, the film is playing at the Maratha Mandir theatre in Mumbai for 1000 weeks.[9][10]
- ^ Having won the award previously for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham..., and Fanaa,[6][28] she is tied with her aunt Nutan in this category.[4]
- ^ The films are listed in order of release date.
- ^ a b c Kajol performed dual roles in the film.[43][44][45]
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