 Kajol describes herself as being " extremely mischievous " as a child . She added that she was very stubborn and impulsive from a very young age . Her parents separated when she was young ; but according to Tanuja , Kajol was not affected by the split as " we never argued in front of [ her ] " . In the absence of her mother , Kajol was looked after by her maternal grandmother , who " never let me feel that my mother was away and working " . According to Kajol , her mother inculcated a sense of independence in her at a very young age . Growing up between two separate cultures , she inherited her " Maharashtrian pragmatism " from her mother and her " Bengali temperament " from her father . 
