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Filmi Family Tree: Know the late Bollywood legend Tanishaa is related to?

Think you know everything about your favourite Bollywood stars? Test your gyaan here!

Tanishaa may be creating news only now, after a failed career in acting, but she comes from a well-known, highly regarded and accomplished family of actors and filmmakers from both her parents' sides.

There's great grandmother Rattan Bai, grandmum Shobhna Samarth, mother Tanuja, aunt Nutan, elder sister Kajol, brother-in-law Ajay Devgn and cousins Mohnish Behl and Rani Mukerji.

Then there was her filmmaker-producer father Shomu Mukherjee and uncle Deb Mukherjee, yesteryear actor uncle Joy Mukherjee, and filmmaker cousin Ayan Mukerji on the paternal side.

But there's a lesser-known connection to yet another illustrious Bollywood family here.

Know which late legend Tanishaa and family are related to?

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Filmi Family Tree: Know the late Bollywood legend Tanishaa is related to?

It's Kishore Kumar!

Sati Devi -- Ashok, Anoop and Kishore Kumar's only sister -- was married to Filmalaya founder and film producer Sashadhar Mukherjee, who happens to be Kajol and Tanishaa's grandfather.

That makes Kishore Kumar Tanisha's grand uncle.

Click here to see some fabulous childhood pictures of Kajol and Tanishaa.