Co-starring Vidya Balan, the film was Mukerji's first commercial success since Ta Ra Rum Pum, and was especially noted for being so in the absence of a male star. The film was based on the Jessica Lal murder case, and featured Mukerji as a fictionalised foul-mouthed journalist who is deeply involved with the case.
She has described how different the role was from the ones she had previously played, saying, "I actually had to play a man!
It's all about externals. She 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. Alongside her acting career, Mukerji is involved with humanitarian causes and is vocal about issues faced by women and children. In she set up a Stroke Treatment Fund, in association with the Indian Stroke Association, to pay for the treatment of financially deprived stroke-affected patients. She has made public appearances to support other charities and causes.
A decade later, in August , she visited the jawans again at Baramulla. Telethon Concert to raise money for the victims of the Indian Ocean earthquake. In March , Mukerji celebrated her birthday with the physically challenged children of the Helen Keller Institute; she had previously worked with them while preparing for her role in Black. In November , she was part of a fund raising auction for the "Because I am a Girl" charity campaign. In , Mukerji attended a charity dinner on child abuse in London, where she was felicitated by Prince Charles for raising awareness on the issue through her work in Mardaani.
Mukerji is involved with humanitarian causes and is vocal about issues faced by women and children. She has participated in concert tours and stage shows, and featured as a talent judge for the reality show Dance Premier League.
Mukerji is married to filmmaker Aditya Chopra, with whom she has a daughter. In an attempt to overcome this decline, Mukerji lost weight and underwent a makeover. Mukerji had high expectations from the film in which she played a cricket-obsessed Punjabi village girl masquerading as a man, and it had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The Economic Times critic Gaurav Malani was disappointed with the picture and wrote that Mukerji "comes up with a spirited performance but her mock sob-whine-whimper do not amuse anymore. Also after a point you dislike visualizing the charming actress as the moustached male player". The film was Mukerji's fourth financial failure in a row. When questioned about her recent spate of flops with the Yash Raj Films banner, she defended the collaborations, saying that "I stand by those films regardless of their fate".
Later that year, she featured as a talent judge for the Sony Entertainment Television reality show Dance Premier League. She agreed to appear on television to gain visibility during a low phase in her film career. After a series of dramatic parts, Mukerji sought to play a light-hearted part, which she found in Kunal Kohli's Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic , a children's film about an angel who comes to Earth to help four troubled kids. In a scathing review, Khalid Mohamed criticised Mukerji's choice of roles and wrote that "she's one-dimensional, either darting full blast smiles or tetchy scowls.
Her costumes, too, are uneasy-on-the-eyes". The film had low box office returns and further contributed to a decline in Mukerji's career prospects. An India Today article spoke of her "running out of luck at the box office" and mentioned her decline in endorsements. She was excited to play the part of a mother for the first time, and modelled her character after her own mother.
Released in , the film was a financial success, but received mixed reactions from critics. Khalid Mohamed hailed Mukerji's performance as "near flawless" but Rajeev Masand thought that neither she nor Khan "are able to make much of an impression because their characters are so unidimensional and boring. Her portrayal earned her a seventh Best Actress nomination at Filmfare, but the film had poor critical and financial returns.
She insisted that the consecutive prostitutes she played were different from each other, with the one in Saawariya having "no problem with her profession". Saawariya was her only release in three years not produced by Yash Raj Films; it was the first Indian film produced by a Hollywood studio, Sony Pictures. The film was a box office flop and met with poor reactions from critics. Mukerji's performance, which was described by A.
By the end of , Mukerji's popularity had begun to wane. Collaborating once again with Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan and Zinta, she played an unhappily married woman who has an affair with a married man. Commenting on the divisive nature of her role, Mukerji said that it changed her own perception of love and marriage. Rajeev Masand wrote that the "consistently competent Rani Mukherjee takes on the film's toughest role — a part that may be hard to sympathise with — but she injects it with tenderness and believability", but Kaveree Bamzai of India Today dismissed it as another one of her roles requiring the "art of weeping copiously and smiling valiantly".
The poorly received melodrama Baabul was her final film appearance of that year. In , Outlook magazine published that Mukerji had established herself as the most successful actress of contemporary Hindi cinema. Her first film role that year was opposite Amitabh Bachchan in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black, a drama about an alcoholic man who dedicates his life to teach a blind and deaf girl how to communicate.
Bhansali wrote the part of the blind-deaf girl specifically for Mukerji, who was initially hesitant to take on the role due to its "challenging" subject matter.
Once Bhansali enforced his faith in her, she agreed and began studying sign language with professionals at the Helen Keller Institute in Mumbai. Empire magazine called Mukerji's performance "astonishing", and Filmfare included her work in their listing of Indian cinema's "80 Most Iconic performances" and wrote, "Rani has left an indelible mark with this role that usually comes once in a lifetime for most".
She played the title character of Babli, a con woman. The film was the second highest-grossing film of Namrata Joshi of Outlook wrote that she "plays to the gallery with ease". The film was a box office flop in India but was given a strong international release; it was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was India's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 79th Academy Awards.
Raja Sen of Rediff. Mukerji's final release of the year was the period film Mangal Pandey: The Rising, about the titular soldier.
Director Ketan Mehta initially approached her for a cameo appearance, which was developed into an larger part after she gave her consent to star in the film.
Her role was that of Heera, a prostitute who forms the love interest of Pandey played by Aamir Khan. Derek Elley mentioned that despite a small role, Mukerji made "the most of her feisty nautch-girl". At the peak of her career, Mukerji featured in listings of the most attractive Indian celebrities, was one of the highest-paid actresses in Bollywood, and the brand ambassador for a number of products. Filmfare featured her in their listing of the ten most powerful people in Bollywood for two consecutive years — In and , Eastern Eye ranked her as one of Asia's sexiest women.
Mukerji featured in Box Office India's top actresses listing for six years and ranked first for two consecutive years — She featured in Rediff.
She was also featured by Rediff. Since , Mukerji's popularity was on a decline and she lost out on her brand endorsements to a number of younger actresses. In , she featured among the greatest Bollywood stars in a UK poll celebrating years of Indian cinema. That same year, the American Embassy in India honoured her with a special trophy for her contributions to Indian cinema.
In , the University of Mumbai felicitated her for her contribution to Bollywood, in , she was honoured with the Outstanding Contribution to Cinema Award by the Government of Mauritius, and in , was received an award for Excellence in Cinema at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. At the 50th Filmfare Awards, Mukerji won both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards, becoming the only actress to win both awards in the same year.
The Best Supporting Actress win was for Mani Ratnam's Yuva , a composite film with an ensemble cast, about three youngsters from different strata of society whose lives intersect by a car accident; Mukerji was cast as a poor Bengali housewife who is abused by her husband, a local goon played by Abhishek Bachchan. She based her role on her house helps who were abused by their husbands, and observed their body language and speaking style.
Taran Adarsh wrote, "Amongst the leading ladies, it is Rani Mukerji who is the best of the lot. The role demanded an actress of substance and Rani more than lives up to the expectations. TEdit X Zainab Salman. Prague: A city of immaculate charm. India's regional summit fails to link Afghanistan with terrorism.
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Rani is the winner of a record 7 Filmfare Awards. In the rating of the magazine of the same name, Mukherjee was twice among the ten best actors in India. At the beginning of her creative biography, Rani Mukherjee on the set met the already popular actor Govinda Arun Akhuja.
The man was 15 years older than his beloved, moreover, he was officially married. The couple failed to build a serious relationship, and the young people broke up. In , Rani met her future husband, director Aditya Chopra. The relationship between them began much later, after 13 years.
In they got married: the wedding took place in Italy, but in Bengali style. The bride wore the national leheng choli outfit. The young people invited only relatives and friends to the ceremony, a total of 15 people were present.
Chopra prefers to hide her personal life; after the wedding, Rani, who was previously open for communication, took the same position. In rare interviews with reporters, Rani says that she is unconditionally happily married. By nature, both spouses are leaders, but they have learned to live in love and respect.
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