Rani Mukherjee is a real Rani (Queen) of the bollywood. She is a Bengali girl born on March 21, 1978 in Kolkatta, West Bengal. Making her acting debut with Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat (1996), Rani had her first commercial success with Karan Johar’s romantic movie ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’(1998), her biggest hit so far, and won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance in the film. In 2004, Rani 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, making her the first actress to win two major awards in the same year. Rani received unanimous praise for her role as a deaf and blind girl in the film Black (2005), as well as many awards for her performance, establishing herself as a leading actress in Bollywood.

Rani Mukerji comes from a film-oriented family of Bengali origin. Rani is the cousin of famous Bollywood actress Kajol. Her father Ram Mukherjee is a retired director and one of the founders of Filmalaya Studios while her mother Krishna was a playback singer. Her brother Raja Mukherjee is a film producer, now turned director. Her maternal aunt, Debashree Roy, is a national award-winning Bengali film actress.

Rani Mukherjee is a trained Odissi dancer, and began learning the dance in the tenth grade. Rani studied at Maneckji Cooper High School in Juhu, and later enrolled at Mithibai College in Mumbai.

Rani Mukherjee facts

Bollywood sources have connected Rani Mukherjee name to many Bollywood industry figures including Aditya Chopra , but she has strongly denied every single rumour of romance. Bollywood sources also claimed that she is regularly in quarrel with some of the Bollywood actors and actresses including her cousing Kajol, but Rani has denied this.

Rani Mukerji changed the English transliteration of her surname from Mukherjee to Mukerji several years ago. At the time, it was reported that she did this for numerological reasons. In 2006, Rani stated that numerology was not a concern; her name had been put down as Mukerji on her passport, and she wanted to be consistent.

Awards and Achievements of Rani Mukherjee

In 1998 Rani Mukherjee wins her first Filmfare award for best supporting actress for the movie ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ directed by Karan Johar. In 2002 She won the Filmfare Critics Award for the movie ‘Saathiya’. In the year 2003 Rani won the Filmfare Best Actress Award for the movie ‘Hum Tum’. In the same year she won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for the Mani Ratnam movie ‘Yuva’. In the year of 2005 she won the double Filmfare award – Best Actress Award & Critics Award for her performance in the Sanjay Leela Bansali movie ‘Black’.

Rani Mukerji was on the top slot of Filmfare’s ‘Top Ten Bollywood Actresses’ list for two years in a row (2004-2005). She was also placed number one on Rediff’s ‘Top Bollywood Female Stars’ Rankings for three consecutive years (2004-2006), while in 2007, she was ranked at number five.

In February 2006, Filmfare Magazine placed Rani Mukherjee eighth amongst the “Ten Most Powerful Names of Bollywood”, an achievement she repeated from the previous year, where she was ranked at number ten as the only woman on the list. In 2007, she was ranked higher at number five.

On Women’s International Day 2007, Rani Mukherjee came in the fourth position on the All-Time Best Bollywood Actresses Ever Listing.

Rani Mukherjee was placed at 36 postion by UK magazine Eastern Eye as one of “Asia’s Sexiest Women” for the year 2006. Rani is frequently featured in various lists by Rediff.com, among them, Bollywood’s Most Beautiful Actresses, Bollywood’s Best Dressed Women and Women of Many Faces.

Mukerji has made three appearances in Karan Johar’s talk show Koffee with Karan. She appeared with Kareena Kapoor, Shahrukh Khan and Kajol, and Madhuri Dixit as a surprise guest. Recently, she made her first appearance on a reality show, along with its contestants on Star Voice of India. The finalists performed to a medley of famous songs from her films. For more information see

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