At the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2023, Rani Mukerji opened up on an unheard facet of her life and revealed having suffered a miscarriage back in 2020.
Rani Mukerji is one of the finest actresses in Bollywood, and there are no second thoughts to it. She is known for her dusky beauty and incomparable acting mettle, while her bubby nature and charming personality win hearts. She made her debut in films with the 1996-released Bengali film, Biyer Phool. The same year, she bagged the lead role in the Hindi film, Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat and achieved overnight stardom. In her personal life, she belongs to a totally filmy family, as she happens to be the daughter of the eminent filmmaker, Ram Mukherjee. Moreover, she is married to yet another producer giant, Aditya Chopra, and the duo is blessed with a daughter, Adira.
Rani Mukerji is currently a guest speaker at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2023. And during the same, she revealed an unheard anecdote of her personal life. The diva revealed that after her daughter, Adira, she got pregnant for the second time in 2020. Rani then mentioned that within 5 months of her pregnancy, she unfortunately suffered a miscarriage and lost her child. The diva added that right after such a personal tragedy, she got the offer for her film, Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway, but she never revealed the information of her miscarriage during the film's promotions, since it might get perceived as a publicity stunt. In her words:
“Maybe this is the first time I am making this revelation because, in today’s world, every aspect of your life is discussed publicly, and becomes an agenda for talking about your film to get more eyeballs. Obviously, I didn’t speak about this when I was promoting the film because it would have come across as me trying to speak about a personal experience that would propel the film…so, it was around the year when COVID-19 struck. It was 2020. I got pregnant with my second baby at the end of 2020 and I unfortunately lost my baby five months into my pregnancy."
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In the same interaction, Rani Mukerji spoke up about taking the opportunity for her film, Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway, right after her miscarriage. She highlighted how the director, Nikhil Advani shared the plot of the film right about 10 days after her miscarriage, and after reading it, she somehow felt connected with the story about losing a child, when she suffered something similar in her real life as well. She mentioned:
“After I lost my baby, Nikhil would have called me probably like 10 days later. He told me about the story and I kind of immediately… not that I had to have the loss of a child to feel the emotion but sometimes there is a film in the right time of what you are going through personally to be able for you to connect with it instantly.”
In one of her previous interviews, Rani had spoken about her wish to have a second child. Being 39 years old at that time, she mentioned having felt that she missed the bus for planning a child again and revealed that she should have done it a few more years back. Nonetheless, she also shared that she was ready to try for another child.
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Unlike most star kids of her age, Rani Mukerji and Aditya Chopra’s daughter, Adira is never papped by the shutterbugs. For the unversed, the celebrity couple has opted for a strict no-picture policy for their daughter. Speaking along the same lines, Rani, in one of her earlier interviews with the Mid-Day, opened up about her daughter, Adira’s take on getting photographed by the paparazzi. The actress revealed that Adira is confused about photographers clicking her pictures whenever she goes out, and added that she refuses to get clicked.
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