Her smile is infectious. She ruled the tinsel world over a decade. Now-a-days we can see her ads pasted around the city, smiling to attract us to her Whirlpool products or through Alpenliebe TV commercials. But now even though she gives occasional appearance on the screen, Kajol is still reigning the hearts of millions.

Coming from a rich filmy lineage, Kajol stepped in the filmdom with ‘Bekhudi’, a movie that didn’t make much impression with people. But, her second movie, ‘Baazigar’ with Shah Rukh Khan made a good impact. She acted movie after movie after this one. But it was ‘Dilwaye Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’ that won audience hearts. With DDLJ, as popularly called, again with SRK, there was no looking back for this dusky beauty. She went on to give striking performances through series of successful films and won several prestigious awards.

Kajol is the first actress to win the Villain Award for her negative role in ‘Gupt’. She won the Filmfare Best Villain Award for Female for this one. King Khan and Kajol gave several films together which became super-duper hit. And the pair became people’s favourite on-screen couple! Kajol is greatly adored in ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’. Who will forget the bubbly Anjali of this Karan Johar’s love story?

Rare are those actress who has the ability to portray all kind of roles – whether it is serious or comedy – Kajol has emerged as one of the best leading ladies in Bollywood. She also spread her talent in Tamil cinema by doing Rajiv Menon’s 'Minsara Kanavu' (dubbed as ‘Sapney’ in Hindi) opposite Prabhu Deva and Arvind Swamy. The movie had won her Filmfare Best Actress Award South.

This light eyed beauty has a charm of her own, that pins down other fair beauties in the industry. Natural beauty oozes out of this dusky actress, giving no place for glass-hour figure and over-done make-up. Her filmograph will be incomplete without the mention of ‘Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gham’, a movie which was loved especially by the older generation. Kajol has shared the screen with most of the popular heroes and supporting stars in the field. Her comeback film ‘Fanaa’ opposite Aamir Khan, won rave reviews and awards. Now, people are eagerly waiting to see her and Shah Rukh back together on the screen with Karan Johar’s ‘My Name is Khan’.

Today, Kajol celebrates her birthday. And it seems her hubby dear Ajay Devagan gave her birthday gift in advance. She has been gifted a white Audi Q7!

Well, hope the beautiful actress spends a very wonderful day today, getting gifts and blessings! May she give on more successes and keep us entertained in the years to come.

IndiaGlitz wishes Kajol a very Happy Birthday!