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News India Live, Digital Desk: In Hindi cinema, Kajol’s name is associated with Mukherjee and Samarth family, but very few people know that she is also to ‘Ganguly Brothers’ i.e. Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar and Anup Kumar. This relationship starts directly from Kajol’s grandfather and film industry veteran Sashadhar Mukherjee.1. How are the links connected? (The Family Tree) To understand this relationship, we have to go back a generation: Sashadhar Mukherjee (Kajol’s grandfather): He was a famous Bollywood producer and gave many hit films with ‘Bombay Talkies’. Sati Devi (Kajol’s grandmother): Sashadhar Mukherjee’s wife’s name was Sati Devi. Sati Devi was none other than the real sister of Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar and Anoop Kumar.2. How did Kishore Kumar look like to Kajol? If we look at it from this perspective: Ashok Kumar and Kishore Kumar were the maternal uncles of Kajol’s father (Shamu Mukherjee). Technically, Kajol seems to be the grand-niece of Kishore Kumar. 3. Mukherjee family expansion in Bollywood Shashadhar Mukherjee and Sati Devi had five sons: Joy Mukherjee, Deb Mukherjee, Shamu Mukherjee (Kajol’s father), Ronu Mukherjee and Subir Mukherjee. Rani Mukherjee’s connection: Kajol and Rani Mukherjee are cousins. Rani’s father Ram Mukherjee was the son of Shashadhar Mukherjee’s brother. In this way the entire Mukherjee family became close relatives of the Ganguly family.4. It is a coincidence that on one hand the ‘Ganguly family’ produced great actors like Ashok Kumar and great singers like Kishore Kumar, while on the other hand the ‘Mukherjee family’ gave incomparable actresses like Tanuja, Nutan and Kajol. Kajol’s mother Tanuja and aunt Nutan were also superstars of their time, who carried forward the legacy of the Samarth family.