Rani Mukherji gained praise for playing an abused wife in the political thriller Yuva and a deaf and blind woman in the drama Black.
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Rani Mukherji gained praise for playing an abused wife in the political thriller Yuva and a deaf and blind woman in the drama Black.
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Rani Mukherji has participated in concert tours and stage shows, and featured as a talent judge for the 2009 reality show Dance Premier League.
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Rani Mukherji's father, Ram Mukherjee was born on to the Mukherjee-Samarth family, and is a former film director and one of the founders of Filmalaya Studios.
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Rani Mukherji's mother, Krishna Mukherjee, is a former playback singer.
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Rani Mukherji's elder brother, Raja Mukherjee, is a film producer and director.
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Rani Mukherji's maternal aunt, Debashree Roy, is a Bengali film actress and her paternal cousin, Kajol, is a Hindi film actress and her contemporary.
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Rani Mukherji said, "There were already too many actresses at home and I wanted to be someone different".
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Rani Mukherji is a trained Odissi dancer and began learning the dance form while in the tenth grade.
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Rani Mukherji's father disapproved of a full-time career in film at such a young age, so she rejected the offer.
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Rani Mukherji played Khan's character's love interest and later wife, Tina who dies after giving birth to their daughter.
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Rani Mukherji refused the offer at first as she disliked the idea of remaking an accomplished film but was convinced to accept the part by the film's producer Aditya Chopra.
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Rani Mukherji replaced Aishwarya Rai to play the lead opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Aziz Mirza's romance Chalte Chalte.
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Rani Mukherji has said that working with Shah Rukh Khan was a learning experience for her, and he would often scold her if she performed inadequately.
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Rani Mukherji based her role on her house helps who were abused by their husbands, and observed their body language and speaking style.
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Rani Mukherji's role was that of Heera, a prostitute who becomes the love interest of Pandey.
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Rani Mukherji was excited to play the part of a mother for the first time, and modelled her character after her own mother.
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Rani Mukherji's portrayal earned her a seventh Best Actress nomination at Filmfare, but the film had poor critical and financial returns.
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Rani Mukherji insisted that the consecutive prostitutes she played were different from each other, with the one in Saawariya having "no problem with her profession".
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Rani Mukherji agreed to appear on television to gain visibility during a low phase in her film career.
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Rani Mukherji argues a lot and proudly labels herself a bitch but her hair stays perfectly in place and in the end, she even gets to do a super-hero-like slow motion walk.
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Rani Mukherji was part of the segment helmed by Johar, in which she played a journalist who discovers that her husband is gay.
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Rani Mukherji took on the role to show girls "how they need to protect themselves".
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Rani Mukherji was keen to work on a project that would accommodate her parental commitments and found it in the comedy-drama Hichki.
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Rani Mukherji has made public appearances to support other charities and causes.
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