 In 1995 , Kajol starred in two major commercial successes — Rakesh Roshan 's Karan Arjun and Aditya Chopra 's Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge — both opposite Shah Rukh Khan . The former was a melodramatic thriller , based on the concept of reincarnation , in which she played Sonia Saxena , a supporting character who forms the love interest of Khan . The film eventually emerged as the second @-@ highest grossing film of the year in India . She justified playing a minor role in the film by saying , " I did Karan Arjun because I wanted to know how it feels to be an ornament . I had nothing to do in the film except look good " . Kajol 's next three releases that year — Taaqat , Hulchul and Gundaraj — failed to do well commercially ; the latter two were her earliest collaborations with her future @-@ husband , the actor Ajay Devgn . 
