"It wasn't normal for girls of film families to take up acting back then...": Rani Mukerji recalls her film debut

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ANI | Updated: Oct 01, 2025 17:38 IST

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 1 (ANI): Bollywood histrion and National Award victor Rani Mukerji, who belongs to a star-studded family, believes that the acting assemblage has go a much feasible vocation enactment for youngsters than it was erstwhile she began her journey. 

Rani Mukerji is the girl of the precocious filmmaker Ram Mukherjee and playback vocalist Krishna Mukherjee. She is the relative sister of Bollywood histrion Kajol and the woman of manager and shaper Aditya Chopra, who is besides the president of Yash Raj Films (YRF). 

Rani Mukerji, who garnered fame from films similar 'Black', 'Mardaani', 'Hichki', 'No One Killed Jessica', and Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway', says that her begetter was not keen connected her becoming an histrion arsenic it wasn't astatine that clip “very normal” for children of movie families to instrumentality up acting.

"He (father Ram Mukherjee) was not keen due to the fact that astatine that time, it wasn't precise mean for children of movie families to instrumentality up acting, particularly girls. It was much the men who utilized to travel the profession, not similar today, erstwhile each the children are truthful motivated to travel their parents' footsteps," Rani said successful an interrogation with ANI.

"That clip it was somewhat different. I don't deliberation the movie industry, successful general, looked similar a precise feasible enactment to prosecute arsenic a vocation backmost then. Like, adjacent portion I was increasing up, I don't deliberation it was thing to beryllium precise arrogant of to accidental successful schoolhouse that I'm from a movie family. It was precise antithetic astatine that time," she added. 

Rani Mukerji said her mother, though, was unfastened astir her taking the acting profession. The histrion humorously shared her mother's archetypal absorption to her archetypal surface test. 

"So for my mother, it was similar you bash it and spot however it goes. Though, aft my archetypal surface test, she recovered maine truthful atrocious that she told the shaper ‘I deliberation you'll ruin your movie by taking my daughter. You'll spell done losses. Better you don't instrumentality her’," the histrion recalled. 

"Because the shaper was precise keen to motion me, Salim uncle (Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat producer)….But my ma was astute capable to recognize that I was not doing a bully job. So she was like, I don't deliberation you should instrumentality her," she added. 

Rani made her Bollywood debut with ‘Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat’ successful 1997. After 2 decades successful the movie industry, the histrion is gladsome that people's cognition of the acting assemblage has changed.

"I deliberation times person changed, ambiance is antithetic today. I deliberation much and much young radical are motivated to go actors. Not lone from the industry, but adjacent from extracurricular the industry," Rani Mukerji said. 

The 'Hichki' histrion believes that the cognition of actors' personas successful the movie manufacture has besides changed.

"It's go feasible, I would say, a vocation enactment for a batch of people, and they look up to cinema not the mode it utilized to beryllium looked upon astatine that time. That time, movie stars were looked upon much arsenic astir apt nymphs oregon Apsara and larger than life. Now it's go much regular idiosyncratic tin besides beryllium acting successful the films,” she said. 

Rani Mukerji won her archetypal National Award this twelvemonth for Best Actress for her show successful the movie 'Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway.'

Directed by Ashima Chibber, the movie stars Rani Mukerji arsenic Mrs Chatterjee and besides features Anirban Bhattacharya, Neena Gupta, and Jim Sarbh successful salient roles.

Mrs. Chatterjee vs Norway is based connected the real-life communicative of Sagarika Chakraborty and Anurup Bhattacharya, an Indian mates surviving successful Norway, whose children were taken distant by Norwegian authorities successful 2011.

Rani plays Debika, a parent who challenges an unfamiliar ineligible strategy to regain custody of her children. The movie highlights the taste misunderstandings betwixt Indian parenting traditions and Western kid payment systems. (ANI)

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