"Our aunts used to choreograph, all the cousins danced...": Rani Mukerji shares childhood memories of Durga Puja celebrations

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 1 (ANI): Bollywood histrion and National Award recipient, Rani Mukerji has shared puerility memories of her dancing with her cousins during Durga Puja celebrations and said their aunts utilized to choreograph the dances.
In a speech with ANI, Rani said celebrations person grown with clip and talked astir the pandal her household has been associated with.
"Everything is becoming a large event, and we are going with the flow... S Mukerji's woman started it, truthful we are successful our 79th year. This twelvemonth is the 79th year..it's ever this puja close from our childhood," she said.
"I person truthful galore memories. My begetter and my parent were precise progressive successful this Durga Puja. At that time, the festival was organised connected a tiny scale. In the evenings, we utilized to creation to Rabindra Sangeet during the amusement programmes. Our aunts utilized to choreograph the dance, and each of america cousins utilized to dance. One night, immoderate families would travel unneurotic for a signifier play, portion different nighttime had america cousins dancing to Rabindra Sangeet. Singers would besides travel and sing. The evenings were each astir taste programmes," she recalled.
The histrion shared however the families service "bhog" and invitation the "dhaaki" (drummer) from West Bengal.
Rani besides shed airy connected however her daughter, Adira, has started embracing her roots.
"She understands the Bengali connection a small bit. My parent speaks Bengali, we learnt it. Adira is calved into a Bengali-Punjabi family, truthful she has to equilibrium some of them," Rani said.
Actresses and cousins Kajol and Rani Mukerji came unneurotic connected Saturday to enactment successful their family's yearly tradition. They were besides accompanied by Kajol's sister Tanisha and relative Ayan Mukerji, who appeared joyful and excited arsenic the North Bombay Durga Puja pandal unveiled the archetypal look of its Goddess Durga idol.
Amid the celebrations, they besides turned affectional portion remembering Ayan Mukerji's father, Deb Mukherjee, who passed distant successful March 2025. Deb Mukherjee utilized to assistance organise the Durga Puja pandal each year.
Besides devotees successful ample numbers, celebrities including Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra Jonas besides arrived successful the pandal. (ANI)