Picture courtesy/Kajol Shrivastava Instagram account

The story behind Kajol Shrivastava's name is a funny one. The actor was originally named Pragati by her parents, but they had to change it on kajol's insistence. "It's a funny story. I was in Senior KG, my mother and father wanted to keep my name as Pragati and I don't why but I wasn't happy with that name. So, I went to school and told my teacher that my name was Kajol. Then my teacher called my father and said that I was referring to myself as Kajol. It was then that my father filled a new form and changed my name to Kajol," she says.