Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 27 (ANI): Bollywood histrion Rani Mukerji says that her National Award honour feels much peculiar arsenic she won it astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic her longtime person and erstwhile co-star Shah Rukh Khan.
At the India Today Conclave Mumbai 2025 league titled the 'Queen of Reinvention: National Award to Motherhood, Winning it All' session, the histrion said, "The grant means truthful overmuch happiness for my fans, my well-wishers, my friends and my family. My single-minded absorption has ever been to enactment hard, bash the champion successful my trade and not to disappoint my audience. It felt adjacent much peculiar arsenic Shah Rukh and I won successful the aforesaid twelvemonth and astatine the aforesaid time."
Rani went connected to explicit her gratitude to filmmaker Karan Johar and said, "I americium eternally grateful to Karan for choosing maine arsenic his Tina. That is 1 quality that has stuck with maine successful my vocation for 3 decades now. For radical calling it a 'Rahul and Tina' happening aft Shah Rukh and maine won the award, it makes maine deliberation that they person loved the characters truthful much. It's precise sweet."
Rani essayed the quality of Tina other Shah Rukh Khan's potrayal of Rahul successful the 1998 romanticist drama directed by Karan Johar.
Rani Mukerji besides spoke astir her 2005 movie 'Black', recalling however she expected an grant backmost successful the day.
"I gave each of excavation to 'Black'. I was conscionable 25 astatine the time. There was a chatter that I would triumph the National Award, and erstwhile I didn't win, that's erstwhile my blinkers came on. I was similar 'Okay, adjacent erstwhile you bash your champion work, it mightiness not beryllium successful your favour. Keep moving hard'. My begetter was precise heartbroken that I didn't triumph that year, and truthful was Sanjay Leela Bhansali," Rani shared.
Having said that, Rani Mukerji did not hide to dedicate her National Award triumph to her precocious begetter and filmmaker Ram Mukherjee.
"I'm genuinely overwhelmed to person my archetypal National Award successful my 30-year travel arsenic an actor. This honour means the satellite to me, and I privation to dedicate it to my precocious father, who ever dreamt of this infinitesimal for me. I miss him profoundly today, and I cognize it's his blessing and my mother's changeless spot and inspiration that guided maine done the relation of Mrs. Chatterjee," said Rani Mukerji arsenic quoted successful a property enactment by YRF.
Rani Mukerji was honoured with the National Award for Best Actress for her show successful the ineligible play 'Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway', which was released successful the theatres successful 2023. (ANI)
