Vikrant Shekhawat : Jun 21, 2022, 08:54 PM
Bollywood | Kajol is the daughter of actress Tanuja and late filmmaker Shomu Mukherjee. In an earlier interview, Kajol had told that her father Shomu wanted to name her Mercedes. The reason for this was that Kajol's father liked this name. Kajol had told in the same interview that her mother Tanuja was very strict and used to beat her with badminton rackets and trawls. Kajol was very young when Tanuja and Shomu Mukherjee got divorced. Shomu died of cardiac arrest in 2008.Mercedes was the name of the car owner's daughterKajol's father Shomu Mukherjee knew the name Mercedes so much that he wanted to name his daughter after this car company. By the way, according to the Internet, Mercedes is a Spanish name for girls, which means 'mercies'. It is said in reference to the Virgin Mary. In an interview to Karan Thapar in 1990, Kajol had said, "My dad wanted to name me Mercedes. He liked the name Mercedes. The owner of the Mercedes car named the car after his daughter. So my father used to think, if he can name his daughter Mercedes then why can't I.Kajol used to get beaten up with a badminton racketKajol had told, I had found love but was not spoiled. My mother was very strict, so I used to beat me with badminton rackets and dishes. Many things were thrown at me. On the work front, Kajol was last seen in Netflix's Tribhanga. Currently she is working in Revathi's film Salaam Venky.