 Kajol made her acting debut at the age of seventeen in the 1992 romantic drama Bekhudi alongside debutante Kamal Sadanah and her mother Tanuja , who in the film also played her mother . Kajol played Radhika , a girl who falls in love with Sadanah 's character despite her parents ' wish for her to marry another man . Although the film turned out to be a box office flop , Kajol 's performance was noticed and she was signed for Baazigar ( 1993 ) , a thriller by Abbas @-@ Mustan , which emerged as a major commercial success . Inspired from the Hollywood film A Kiss Before Dying , the film co @-@ starred Shah Rukh Khan , Shilpa Shetty and Siddharth Ray , and saw Kajol portray the leading role of Priya Chopra , a girl who falls in love with her sister 's murderer . The film marked the first of her many collaborations with Khan . 
