Post by Runa on Oct 14, 2007 6:07:22 GMT -5
Being Rani Mukherjee: A star in her own rights
Anuradha SenGupta / CNN-IBN
Published on Sunday , October 14, 2007 at 04:30 in Entertainment section
Coming straight out of school and knowing nothing about a script, a film or a camera, Rani Mukherjee started her career in the film industry. The talented actress’s fame now transcends beyond borders. CNN-IBN’s Anuradha SenGupta spoke to the actress about her films, family and her plans.
Anuradha SenGupta: You are one of the best actors we have around. And you have no formal training in acting. How have you arrived at where you are today?
Rani Mukherjee: I grew up in Bombay just like any other child. And being filmi at time used to be a slang. My friends used to tell me – ‘Oh you are so filmi.
Anuradha SenGupta: Which means you’re not so cool.
Rani Mukherjee: Yes at that time, when we were in school, it wasn’t cool. Right now it is. But I remember filmi was a bad word for me.
After my class 12, a father’s friend, who is also a producer, Mr Salim Akhtar came over and said – ‘I want to launch your daughter’. My mother was very keen because she has a sister who is already an actress. My maternal grandmother was also very keen. So they planned and convinced my father and I went for a screen test.
It was really awkward for me because I had come straight out of school, which was Maneckjee Cooper, and knew nothing about a script, a film or a camera. And they made me wear a mini skirt, boots and made me prance around. Then they gave me a sari and asked me to recite some lines. They put glycerine in my eyes and I just couldn’t open them. And I was like – ‘Is this what films are?’ Because to us films are very glamorous.
Anuradha SenGupta: It’s like a gamble. Isn’t?
Rani Mukherjee: Absolutely.
Anuradha SenGupta: When you see this kind of gamble, the fact that a project of Rs 20-30 crores…
Rani Mukherjee: I remember my first film Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat was completely a woman-oriented film. So they needed an actress for that. And there I was who didn’t know the A of acting.
Anuradha SenGupta: This was 1996?
Rani Mukherjee: No this was 1995.
Anuradha SenGupta: We are in 2007 now. So from your first role when they needed an ‘actress’ and you were nothing, to today being recognised as one of the best actors we have. How have you come form there to here?
Rani Mukherjee: I will tell you. And then what happened is that I joined Roshan Taneja’s classes for formal training. I personally believe that one must take formal training because formal training not necessarily mean that they teach you acting. But they just get you comfortable in being in front of people. Just to act and emote in front of hundred people staring at you is like being an animal in the zoo where you have people watching you constantly. And you have to be shameless and naked.
Anuradha SenGupta: But is it not true that most actors are exhibitionists? They like being watched.
Rani Mukherjee: No it’s not true.
Anuradha SenGupta: Are you saying that a really shy person can become an actor?
Rani Mukherjee: I was completely shy. If you ask my father, he will tell you that. In school, my brother was more of an extrovert. He used to dance and be the centre of attention. I was soft spoken and shy. I was really different.
Anuradha SenGupta: The buses have Laaga Chunri Mein Daag posters and I was looking at the cast and wondering ‘Where’s Rani? Why is she not here? And when I turned a little bit more, I see there you are unrecognisable. So is that something exciting when you are having to look different, physically be someone else?
Rani Mukherjee: I believe as an actor when you’re playing a character, half the job is done when you look different. If you look different, you look like the character and people can identify with you bang on. In Yuva I play Sasi. And if Sasi had looked glamorous or very polished, you wouldn’t have identified with the character.
Anuradha SenGupta: How much preparation went into Sasi?
Rani Mukherjee: Half the job was done by Manish Malhotra who did the costumes. He had to wash the saris some hundred times to make it look worn out. And of course Mani (Ratnam) sir didn’t want me to have any make up. So I just looked myself.
Anuradha SenGupta: I’m glad you mentioned Yuva and Sasi because I must admit that out of this big body of work that you have, perhaps that is my all time favourite. That end when you are in that train and he doesn’t make it…
Rani Mukherjee: Actually if I tell you how we shot that scene, you will really laugh. That was my first day of work for the film and I got a call at three in the morning asking me to come. The assistant director gave me the scene and I was the in the car. And at 0330 hrs (IST) I see this huge crowd in Chennai station. And at 0430 hrs (IST), we shoot my most important scene of the film. It was all done quickly because we had the train for just that much amount of time so that we could shoot inside. And the train was so small that we had to go on top of people to reach my mark. It was really funny. I don’t know how it came out. I think it was my sleep that made me look like that.
Anuradha SenGupta: You have said somewhere that Black is the pinnacle of your body of work so far. Do you still stand by that?
Rani Mukherjee: I will stand by that even till the day I die because for me, not for any other reason or not to take away from the other work I have done or I will be doing, Black has been the most challenging. It was a completely new world for me.
Anuradha SenGupta: Would you like this kind of involvement and this kind of preparatory work on every film you do. Or you think it will exhaust you if it was going to be like this.
Rani Mukherjee: I think every film demands a different kind of preparation. Black needed much more. I had to play someone I had never met or known. I had to learn the sign language. It wasn’t talking in words, but emoting through your fingers.
More than the accolades, I think Black made a difference. At least people got up to the cause of the deaf-blind. So if you can touch a cord somewhere and reach out to larger audience, I think that makes me very happy. That might happen with Laaga Chunri Mein Daag also in a strange way because it is talking about the cause of certain women.
Anuradha SenGupta: Are you a feminist?
Rani Mukherjee: I would not say I am feminist. But I do feel strongly for causes that affect women because it angers me to know that women are ill treated.
Anuradha SenGupta: When you say you are not a feminist, what do you mean?
Rani Mukherjee: I wouldn’t say women are greater than men or we women are right all the time. It’s not about being a woman just to prove it. For women it’s a big deal that we can be mothers and men can’t. We know the strength we have within us. But we don’t need to project it or show it to the world for no rhyme or reason because they know the truth.
Anuradha SenGupta: But in the film industry, does it bother you that here you are one of the most talented actors we have got. I use the word actor as gender neutral. You have seen huge box office success. Do you think a Hindi film sells at the distributor level on the back of a female name getting the top billings?
Rani Mukherjee: I see it in a broader perspective. Every film has been a big blockbuster one because of the female also. There is a very important role that the actress has played in that.
Anuradha SenGupta: But are they getting paid equally? I don’t think so.
Rani Mukherjee: I would not say paid equally because actors demand and they do get the amount because their names are going to sell. But there are also certain films where the actresses demand, which may not be as much, but close to what the actors are demanding and get it.
Anuradha SenGupta: You being one of them for sure.
Rani Mukherjee: Yes. But I’m not speaking. I’m keeping my mouth shut.
Anuradha SenGupta: Your film Laaga Chunri Mein Daag has released and you did Ta Ra Rum Pum earlier this year. That didn’t do too well. We don’t know how well Laaga Chunri Mein Daag will do. But what is life like in between an unsuccessful film and a new film? Or it doesn’t matter because of the long track record of success that you have?
Rani Mukherjee: Had Ta Ra Rum Pum not done well with the children or family audience, I would have been disappointed. But it did extremely well in certain centres, which some people do not want to agree with. What makes a difference to me is when I meet children, for them I am Ta Ra Rum Pum aunty and Saif is Ta Ra Rum Pum uncle. There are young mothers who come up to me and say our children want a mother like you. These little things bring a lot of happiness in my life.
Anuradha SenGupta: Doesn’t commercial success or how big the commercial success really bother you as an actor?
Rani Mukherjee: It does bother me as an actor because commercial success is equally important for me because a lot of people keep shut once the film is a commercial success, but at the same time I also feel that there are certain other successes that people do not want to accept.
Anuradha SenGupta: If you have said yes to a project and you have gone along with it you stand by it no matter what.
Rani Mukherjee: I will stand by it and will stand by it till the day I die.
Anuradha SenGupta: We have a theory. When people see actors in romantic or intimate situations on screens. It is usually said, “They have a great chemistry.” I have been arguing all along saying that I don’t think that they have great chemistry. I think that the director is manufacturing chemistry because of the way he is shooting the scene and what is he is making them do. So does there have to be a basic chemistry?
Rani Mukherjee: I don’t think that there has to be a basic chemistry because at times when you are a really good actor you can romance a tree but the fact remains that when you actually talk of screen-couples who have made it in terms of the famous jodis. You will always know that they have been great friends. There is a comfort level that they share in terms being comfortable physically with each other and there is no awkwardness between them.
Anuradha SenGupta: Are you saying that the great romantic jodis that we have seen over the decades don’t have to necessarily be romantic or lovers in real life but a great friendship is required to be able to generate that chemistry?
Rani Mukherjee: Not only a great friendship but also a comfort zone where you are not awkward with the way the person touches you. And what is important for an actor is that he has to be so shrewd and selfish that if he has to romance a tree he should do that very well because he is an actor and he has to emote. He has to emote in front of an actor not as good as him or who is much better than him.
You have to give your 100 per cent. You can’t just stand there and tell your director “See, I am only emoting and he is she is not.” There comes a time when you want to push your act and say come on do something and get on to action. However, the director is very important, as he is the one who designs the shots and chemistry.
Anuradha SenGupta: But you have shot down my theory of the fact that it is only a director and the fact it is the director who designs the chemistry an we as viewers watch the chemistry?
Rani Mukherjee: Absolutely, there have been instances and situations when I not been in talking terms with the actor but if I have to do a romantic scene then I have to do it.
So whether I am in talking terms with the actor and or not and if I have to do a scene with him I have to do it so well because my audience is watching me and they will say, “Rani has not cheated and she is doing a great shot and that she is that person at that point of time.” I have to forget who I am at that point of time and be that character.
Anuradha SenGupta: That is the most interesting thing I have heard an actor say ever. It is about the integrity of acting.
Rani Mukherjee: I have to be true to my job and I have to be true to my profession and that is beyond me being the person that I am today.
Anuradha SenGupta: But if someone were to touch me and kiss me I might feel attracted to that person, does it work that way? How much can you block out?
Rani Mukherjee: A girl and boy relationship at school is such that they can hold hands without either becoming a current or anything of that sort or even having a dramatic feeling in the heart. Being in films is so much of a profession where the communication and the interaction are so important that none of us can feel that.
Anuradha SenGupta: But it is possible for your mind to disconnect from your body. We are talking about stimulus as in if I touch you then you react, isn’t it?
Rani Mukherjee: The fact is that there is so much of thought gone behind this and also so much of thought gone behind that- “I am supposed to be touching him here and I have to emote the expression.
When an actor performs he becomes so selfish that he is not bothered about how the other person is reacting. He is too into his own that when I am hugging the person the director should feel that I am really getting very excited or I am feeling as if the person is the man I really love.
We are trying to get our expressions correct more than trying to see what the other person is feeling at that point of time. Actors disconnect because at the end of it all we are more concerned about how we are looking.
Anuradha SenGupta: Is it important for you to be a good girl as in bhalo mei?
Rani Mukherjee: I wan to be a bhalo mein for my parents because as children I think we owe a lot to them. I don’t think that we in our entire lifetime can do much for them because what they do for us is immeasurable and it is something that goes beyond my thinking.
I love my parents to death so I feel that the little I can do is be their daughter and it is not about being good or bad but being just correct for them.
Anuradha SenGupta: So do you do whatever they tell you to do?
Rani Mukherjee: No, my family is a simple and a normal one where I fight with my mom and argue with my brother.
Anuradha SenGupta: How can you say that your family is a normal one when one member the family is a huge star where everybody is interested in whatever you do. I believe that you were in a press and people wanted to know whether you were already married.
Rani Mukherjee:And I told them that I had five children.
Anuradha SenGupta: So the point is how is it normal because your success and your career ensures that it is not going to be normal isn’t it?
Rani Mukherjee: It does ensure that it not is going to be normal but the magic is that you try to remain normal in spite of all the kind of queries that people have about you.
Anuradha SenGupta: Would you like it if people stopped questioning you and were not interested in you, that would also bother you isn’t it?
Rani Mukherjee:That is a different thing. It would bother me if people question about the kind of work I have done but it would not bother me if people stop asking me what toothpaste do I use. I wouldn’t like to do an interview where I am meant to clarify certain things to young journalists who just take the pen out of their bags, write something about me and pretend to be Gods because they write our life. They write things that are not true and they write things that make me think whether I did or not the things that they have written about me.
They write with so much of honesty and authenticity that when I read the paper I ask myself, “Oh really! Did I get married? Did I get engaged?” I start questioning myself.
Anuradha SenGupta: But if and when you do get married, you will tell the world.
Rani Mukherjee: Of course I will. I think that it is such a beautiful thing to get married and my parents are going to be very happy when I do get married.
Anuradha SenGupta: Rani Mukherjee we don’t know what is in store for you tomorrow but we do know that you are a great actor and we don’t care whether you are married, not getting married or getting married. Just keep doing good work and we will keep watching you. Thank you.
Rani Mukherjee:Thank you.
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Anuradha SenGupta / CNN-IBN
Published on Sunday , October 14, 2007 at 04:30 in Entertainment section
Coming straight out of school and knowing nothing about a script, a film or a camera, Rani Mukherjee started her career in the film industry. The talented actress’s fame now transcends beyond borders. CNN-IBN’s Anuradha SenGupta spoke to the actress about her films, family and her plans.
Anuradha SenGupta: You are one of the best actors we have around. And you have no formal training in acting. How have you arrived at where you are today?
Rani Mukherjee: I grew up in Bombay just like any other child. And being filmi at time used to be a slang. My friends used to tell me – ‘Oh you are so filmi.
Anuradha SenGupta: Which means you’re not so cool.
Rani Mukherjee: Yes at that time, when we were in school, it wasn’t cool. Right now it is. But I remember filmi was a bad word for me.
After my class 12, a father’s friend, who is also a producer, Mr Salim Akhtar came over and said – ‘I want to launch your daughter’. My mother was very keen because she has a sister who is already an actress. My maternal grandmother was also very keen. So they planned and convinced my father and I went for a screen test.
It was really awkward for me because I had come straight out of school, which was Maneckjee Cooper, and knew nothing about a script, a film or a camera. And they made me wear a mini skirt, boots and made me prance around. Then they gave me a sari and asked me to recite some lines. They put glycerine in my eyes and I just couldn’t open them. And I was like – ‘Is this what films are?’ Because to us films are very glamorous.
Anuradha SenGupta: It’s like a gamble. Isn’t?
Rani Mukherjee: Absolutely.
Anuradha SenGupta: When you see this kind of gamble, the fact that a project of Rs 20-30 crores…
Rani Mukherjee: I remember my first film Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat was completely a woman-oriented film. So they needed an actress for that. And there I was who didn’t know the A of acting.
Anuradha SenGupta: This was 1996?
Rani Mukherjee: No this was 1995.
Anuradha SenGupta: We are in 2007 now. So from your first role when they needed an ‘actress’ and you were nothing, to today being recognised as one of the best actors we have. How have you come form there to here?
Rani Mukherjee: I will tell you. And then what happened is that I joined Roshan Taneja’s classes for formal training. I personally believe that one must take formal training because formal training not necessarily mean that they teach you acting. But they just get you comfortable in being in front of people. Just to act and emote in front of hundred people staring at you is like being an animal in the zoo where you have people watching you constantly. And you have to be shameless and naked.
Anuradha SenGupta: But is it not true that most actors are exhibitionists? They like being watched.
Rani Mukherjee: No it’s not true.
Anuradha SenGupta: Are you saying that a really shy person can become an actor?
Rani Mukherjee: I was completely shy. If you ask my father, he will tell you that. In school, my brother was more of an extrovert. He used to dance and be the centre of attention. I was soft spoken and shy. I was really different.
Anuradha SenGupta: The buses have Laaga Chunri Mein Daag posters and I was looking at the cast and wondering ‘Where’s Rani? Why is she not here? And when I turned a little bit more, I see there you are unrecognisable. So is that something exciting when you are having to look different, physically be someone else?
Rani Mukherjee: I believe as an actor when you’re playing a character, half the job is done when you look different. If you look different, you look like the character and people can identify with you bang on. In Yuva I play Sasi. And if Sasi had looked glamorous or very polished, you wouldn’t have identified with the character.
Anuradha SenGupta: How much preparation went into Sasi?
Rani Mukherjee: Half the job was done by Manish Malhotra who did the costumes. He had to wash the saris some hundred times to make it look worn out. And of course Mani (Ratnam) sir didn’t want me to have any make up. So I just looked myself.
Anuradha SenGupta: I’m glad you mentioned Yuva and Sasi because I must admit that out of this big body of work that you have, perhaps that is my all time favourite. That end when you are in that train and he doesn’t make it…
Rani Mukherjee: Actually if I tell you how we shot that scene, you will really laugh. That was my first day of work for the film and I got a call at three in the morning asking me to come. The assistant director gave me the scene and I was the in the car. And at 0330 hrs (IST) I see this huge crowd in Chennai station. And at 0430 hrs (IST), we shoot my most important scene of the film. It was all done quickly because we had the train for just that much amount of time so that we could shoot inside. And the train was so small that we had to go on top of people to reach my mark. It was really funny. I don’t know how it came out. I think it was my sleep that made me look like that.
Anuradha SenGupta: You have said somewhere that Black is the pinnacle of your body of work so far. Do you still stand by that?
Rani Mukherjee: I will stand by that even till the day I die because for me, not for any other reason or not to take away from the other work I have done or I will be doing, Black has been the most challenging. It was a completely new world for me.
Anuradha SenGupta: Would you like this kind of involvement and this kind of preparatory work on every film you do. Or you think it will exhaust you if it was going to be like this.
Rani Mukherjee: I think every film demands a different kind of preparation. Black needed much more. I had to play someone I had never met or known. I had to learn the sign language. It wasn’t talking in words, but emoting through your fingers.
More than the accolades, I think Black made a difference. At least people got up to the cause of the deaf-blind. So if you can touch a cord somewhere and reach out to larger audience, I think that makes me very happy. That might happen with Laaga Chunri Mein Daag also in a strange way because it is talking about the cause of certain women.
Anuradha SenGupta: Are you a feminist?
Rani Mukherjee: I would not say I am feminist. But I do feel strongly for causes that affect women because it angers me to know that women are ill treated.
Anuradha SenGupta: When you say you are not a feminist, what do you mean?
Rani Mukherjee: I wouldn’t say women are greater than men or we women are right all the time. It’s not about being a woman just to prove it. For women it’s a big deal that we can be mothers and men can’t. We know the strength we have within us. But we don’t need to project it or show it to the world for no rhyme or reason because they know the truth.
Anuradha SenGupta: But in the film industry, does it bother you that here you are one of the most talented actors we have got. I use the word actor as gender neutral. You have seen huge box office success. Do you think a Hindi film sells at the distributor level on the back of a female name getting the top billings?
Rani Mukherjee: I see it in a broader perspective. Every film has been a big blockbuster one because of the female also. There is a very important role that the actress has played in that.
Anuradha SenGupta: But are they getting paid equally? I don’t think so.
Rani Mukherjee: I would not say paid equally because actors demand and they do get the amount because their names are going to sell. But there are also certain films where the actresses demand, which may not be as much, but close to what the actors are demanding and get it.
Anuradha SenGupta: You being one of them for sure.
Rani Mukherjee: Yes. But I’m not speaking. I’m keeping my mouth shut.
Anuradha SenGupta: Your film Laaga Chunri Mein Daag has released and you did Ta Ra Rum Pum earlier this year. That didn’t do too well. We don’t know how well Laaga Chunri Mein Daag will do. But what is life like in between an unsuccessful film and a new film? Or it doesn’t matter because of the long track record of success that you have?
Rani Mukherjee: Had Ta Ra Rum Pum not done well with the children or family audience, I would have been disappointed. But it did extremely well in certain centres, which some people do not want to agree with. What makes a difference to me is when I meet children, for them I am Ta Ra Rum Pum aunty and Saif is Ta Ra Rum Pum uncle. There are young mothers who come up to me and say our children want a mother like you. These little things bring a lot of happiness in my life.
Anuradha SenGupta: Doesn’t commercial success or how big the commercial success really bother you as an actor?
Rani Mukherjee: It does bother me as an actor because commercial success is equally important for me because a lot of people keep shut once the film is a commercial success, but at the same time I also feel that there are certain other successes that people do not want to accept.
Anuradha SenGupta: If you have said yes to a project and you have gone along with it you stand by it no matter what.
Rani Mukherjee: I will stand by it and will stand by it till the day I die.
Anuradha SenGupta: We have a theory. When people see actors in romantic or intimate situations on screens. It is usually said, “They have a great chemistry.” I have been arguing all along saying that I don’t think that they have great chemistry. I think that the director is manufacturing chemistry because of the way he is shooting the scene and what is he is making them do. So does there have to be a basic chemistry?
Rani Mukherjee: I don’t think that there has to be a basic chemistry because at times when you are a really good actor you can romance a tree but the fact remains that when you actually talk of screen-couples who have made it in terms of the famous jodis. You will always know that they have been great friends. There is a comfort level that they share in terms being comfortable physically with each other and there is no awkwardness between them.
Anuradha SenGupta: Are you saying that the great romantic jodis that we have seen over the decades don’t have to necessarily be romantic or lovers in real life but a great friendship is required to be able to generate that chemistry?
Rani Mukherjee: Not only a great friendship but also a comfort zone where you are not awkward with the way the person touches you. And what is important for an actor is that he has to be so shrewd and selfish that if he has to romance a tree he should do that very well because he is an actor and he has to emote. He has to emote in front of an actor not as good as him or who is much better than him.
You have to give your 100 per cent. You can’t just stand there and tell your director “See, I am only emoting and he is she is not.” There comes a time when you want to push your act and say come on do something and get on to action. However, the director is very important, as he is the one who designs the shots and chemistry.
Anuradha SenGupta: But you have shot down my theory of the fact that it is only a director and the fact it is the director who designs the chemistry an we as viewers watch the chemistry?
Rani Mukherjee: Absolutely, there have been instances and situations when I not been in talking terms with the actor but if I have to do a romantic scene then I have to do it.
So whether I am in talking terms with the actor and or not and if I have to do a scene with him I have to do it so well because my audience is watching me and they will say, “Rani has not cheated and she is doing a great shot and that she is that person at that point of time.” I have to forget who I am at that point of time and be that character.
Anuradha SenGupta: That is the most interesting thing I have heard an actor say ever. It is about the integrity of acting.
Rani Mukherjee: I have to be true to my job and I have to be true to my profession and that is beyond me being the person that I am today.
Anuradha SenGupta: But if someone were to touch me and kiss me I might feel attracted to that person, does it work that way? How much can you block out?
Rani Mukherjee: A girl and boy relationship at school is such that they can hold hands without either becoming a current or anything of that sort or even having a dramatic feeling in the heart. Being in films is so much of a profession where the communication and the interaction are so important that none of us can feel that.
Anuradha SenGupta: But it is possible for your mind to disconnect from your body. We are talking about stimulus as in if I touch you then you react, isn’t it?
Rani Mukherjee: The fact is that there is so much of thought gone behind this and also so much of thought gone behind that- “I am supposed to be touching him here and I have to emote the expression.
When an actor performs he becomes so selfish that he is not bothered about how the other person is reacting. He is too into his own that when I am hugging the person the director should feel that I am really getting very excited or I am feeling as if the person is the man I really love.
We are trying to get our expressions correct more than trying to see what the other person is feeling at that point of time. Actors disconnect because at the end of it all we are more concerned about how we are looking.
Anuradha SenGupta: Is it important for you to be a good girl as in bhalo mei?
Rani Mukherjee: I wan to be a bhalo mein for my parents because as children I think we owe a lot to them. I don’t think that we in our entire lifetime can do much for them because what they do for us is immeasurable and it is something that goes beyond my thinking.
I love my parents to death so I feel that the little I can do is be their daughter and it is not about being good or bad but being just correct for them.
Anuradha SenGupta: So do you do whatever they tell you to do?
Rani Mukherjee: No, my family is a simple and a normal one where I fight with my mom and argue with my brother.
Anuradha SenGupta: How can you say that your family is a normal one when one member the family is a huge star where everybody is interested in whatever you do. I believe that you were in a press and people wanted to know whether you were already married.
Rani Mukherjee:And I told them that I had five children.
Anuradha SenGupta: So the point is how is it normal because your success and your career ensures that it is not going to be normal isn’t it?
Rani Mukherjee: It does ensure that it not is going to be normal but the magic is that you try to remain normal in spite of all the kind of queries that people have about you.
Anuradha SenGupta: Would you like it if people stopped questioning you and were not interested in you, that would also bother you isn’t it?
Rani Mukherjee:That is a different thing. It would bother me if people question about the kind of work I have done but it would not bother me if people stop asking me what toothpaste do I use. I wouldn’t like to do an interview where I am meant to clarify certain things to young journalists who just take the pen out of their bags, write something about me and pretend to be Gods because they write our life. They write things that are not true and they write things that make me think whether I did or not the things that they have written about me.
They write with so much of honesty and authenticity that when I read the paper I ask myself, “Oh really! Did I get married? Did I get engaged?” I start questioning myself.
Anuradha SenGupta: But if and when you do get married, you will tell the world.
Rani Mukherjee: Of course I will. I think that it is such a beautiful thing to get married and my parents are going to be very happy when I do get married.
Anuradha SenGupta: Rani Mukherjee we don’t know what is in store for you tomorrow but we do know that you are a great actor and we don’t care whether you are married, not getting married or getting married. Just keep doing good work and we will keep watching you. Thank you.
Rani Mukherjee:Thank you.
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