ఇతడు కలకత్తా లోని ప్రెసిడెన్సీ కాలేజి ఉన్నతవిద్యను అభ్యసించి న్యాయవాదిగా వృత్తిని చేపట్టాడు. ఇతడు లా చదువుతున్నపటికీ ఇతని మనసు సినిమా రంగంపైనే ఉంది. ఇతడు సినిమాలలో టెక్నీషియన్‌గా రాణించాలనుకున్నాడు.
ఇతడు చదువుకునే సమయంలోనే శోభ అనే అమ్మాయితో తల్లిదండ్రులు కుదిర్చిన వివాహాన్ని సంప్రదాయబద్ధంగా చేసుకున్నాడు.<ref>{{cite web|title=Home alone: Ashok Kumar |url=http://downloads.movies.indiatimes.com/site/feb2001/tunen2.html |work=Home alone: Ashok Kumar |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080205232633/http://downloads.movies.indiatimes.com/site/feb2001/tunen2.html |archivedate=5 February 2008 }}</ref> వీరి దాంపత్యం అన్యోన్యంగా సాగింది. వీరికి అరూప్ గంగూలీ అనే కుమారుడు, భారతీ పటేల్, రూపావర్మ, ప్రీతి గంగూలీ అనే ముగ్గురు కుమార్తెలు కలిగారు.
Kumudlal's daughter Bharati married twice, and both times for love. Her first marriage was to a Mr. Patel, a Gujarati gentleman. By this marriage, she had one daughter, the actress [[Anuradha Patel]], who is married to the actor [[Kanwaljit Singh (actor)|Kanwaljeet Singh]]. Later, and much against the wishes of all her relatives, Bharati married Hameed Jaffrey, a Muslim, the brother of the actor [[Saeed Jaffrey]]. By this second marriage, Bharati had another daughter, Shaheen Jaffrey, whose principal claim to fame is that she may have been the first love of actor [[Salman Khan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bollywood.bhaskar.com/news-aff/ENT-BOL-meet-first-ever-girlfriend-of-salman-khan-5244922-PHO.html|title=ये रही हैं सलमान खान की पहली गर्लफ्रेंड, होते-होते रह गई दोनों की शादी!|author=|date=10 February 2016|website=bhaskar.com|accessdate=27 March 2018}}</ref> By this second marriage, Bharati also acquired a step-daughter, Geneviève, who was Hameed's daughter by his first wife Valarie Salway, a woman of Scottish, Irish, Portuguese and Spanish heritage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vervemagazine.in/people/kiara-alia-advani-bollywood-actress?platform=hootsuite|title=Gene Junction: Kiara Alia Advani|author=|date=2 February 2016|website=vervemagazine.in|accessdate=27 March 2018}}</ref> Geneviève married a [[Sindhi people|Sindhi]] businessman named Jagdeep Advani. Their daughter is the upcoming model and actress [[Kiara Advani]]. Thus, Ashok Kumar has no blood relationship with Kiara Advani and she is not his great-granddaughter, as is sometimes rumoured.
