She followed her career by signing on several projects. The movie was a blockbuster, and she received her first Filmfare Award in the Best Supporting Actress category. Karan Johar`s directorial debut, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, co-starring Shahrukh Khan and Kajol, followed for her that year. The song Aati Kya Khandala made Mukherjee popular among the masses, earning her the nickname of Khandala Girl. Mukherjee had a successful comeback in 1998 with Ghulam, opposite Aamir Khan the film did well at the box office. However, when the film failed at the box office, she returned to college to complete her education. Nevertheless, she received a Special Jury recognition at the Star Screen Awards. Her performance as a rape victim in the film was well received, but the film failed to do well commercially. Mukherjee studied at Maneckji Cooper High School in Juhu, and later enrolled at Mithibai College in Mumbai.Īfter doing a short cameo appearance for the first time in her father`s Bengali film Biyer Phool (1992), Mukherjee made her acting debut five years later, as the protagonist of Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat (1997). Mukherjee is a trained Odissi dancer, and began learning the dance in the tenth grade. Her maternal aunt, Debashree Roy, is a national award-winning Bengali film actress and her cousin, Kajol, is a popular Bollywood actress and another cousin, Ayan Mukherjee is the writer and director of Wake Up Sid.
Her brother Raja Mukherjee is a film producer, now turned director. Her father Ram Mukherjee is a retired director and one of the founders of Filmalaya Studios while her mother Krishna was a playback singer.
Mukherjee comes from a film-oriented family of Bengali origin.
Mukherjee has since established herself as a leading actress of Hindi cinema. She later received unanimous praise for her portrayal of a blind, deaf and mute woman in Black (2005), for which she garnered numerous major awards. In 2004, her performances in the hit Hum Tum and the critically acclaimed Yuva earned her the Best Actress and the Best Supporting Actress awards at the Filmfare ceremony, making her the first actress to win two major awards in the same year. She later starred in several films, most of which fared below expectations, but in 2002 she re-invented her image with the critically acclaimed drama Saathiya, for which she received numerous awards and nominations. Making her acting debut with Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat (1997), Mukherjee had her first commercial success with Karan Johar`s romance Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), her biggest commercial success so far, and won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance in the film. Rani Mukherjee born on 21 March 1978, is an Indian film actress who works in Hindi movies.
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