Bollywood stars
Kajol
Simran of DDLJ
About Kajol
Kajol is the Simran of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, the 1995 love story that Yash Raj Films calls the longest-running film in Indian cinema. Her pairing with Shah Rukh Khan runs through some of the best-loved Hindi films of the 1990s and 2000s.
On screen
In Aditya Chopra’s Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (20 October 1995) she plays Simran, who meets Raj on an inter-rail holiday in Europe before she is taken home to India for an arranged marriage. Three years later she was Anjali in Karan Johar’s Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and Anjali again in his Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001).
In Fanaa (2006) she plays Zooni Ali Beg opposite Aamir Khan, and in Rohit Shetty’s Dilwale (2015), from Red Chillies, she and Shah Rukh Khan are lovers parted by a family feud and reunited fifteen years on. She is also Mandira in My Name Is Khan (2010), from Dharma Productions.
Raj and Simran first meet on an inter-rail holiday in Europe.
Our advice: start with Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, then read our Shah Rukh Khan story for the Mumbai places linked to it.
Selected films
Yeh Dillagi (6 May 1994), directed by Naresh Malhotra
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (20 October 1995), directed by Aditya Chopra
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (16 October 1998), directed by Karan Johar
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (14 December 2001), directed by Karan Johar
Fanaa (26 May 2006), directed by Kunal Kohli
Dilwale (18 December 2015), directed by Rohit Shetty
Release dates and directors are from the films’ pages on the Yash Raj Films and Red Chillies Entertainment websites.
Why it's on our list
- Simran in DDLJ
- Anjali in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
- Reunited with Shah Rukh Khan in Dilwale
Release dates and directors come from the studios’ own websites, and the National Film Awards from the Government of India’s Press Information Bureau.