Rani Mukerji filmography
Rani Mukerji is an Indian actress known for her work in Hindi films. She made her screen debut with a parallel lead role in Biyer Phool (1996), a Bengali film directed by her father Ram Mukherjee.[1] Her first leading role was that of a rape victim in the 1996 social drama Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat, for which she won a special jury trophy at the Screen Awards.[2] In 1998 she received wider recognition for her role alongside Aamir Khan in the action film Ghulam.[3] Later that year, her breakthrough role as the romantic interest of Shah Rukh Khan's character in the romantic drama Kuch Kuch Hota Hai earned Mukerji her first Filmfare Award in the Best Supporting Actress category.[4] She followed this initial success by portraying the leading lady in several films, including Hello Brother (1999) and Nayak: The Real Hero (2001), none of which helped propel her career forward.[5][6][7]
Mukerji's career prospects improved in 2002 when she played the lead role of a medical student in Yash Raj Films' Saathiya, a romantic drama that gained her a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.[8][9] For her roles in the 2004 romantic comedy Hum Tum and the drama Yuva, Mukerji became the only actress to win both the Filmfare Award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively, in the same year.[10][11][12] Also that year, she starred in Veer-Zaara—the highest-grossing Bollywood film of the year.[13] In 2005 she garnered praise for portraying a blind, deaf and mute woman in the drama Black, and starred in the critically acclaimed fantasy film Paheli.[14][15] She also played a con woman that year in the lucrative comedy film Bunty Aur Babli.[16] For her performance in Black, she was awarded the Best Actress and Best Actress – Critics trophies at Filmfare.[9] The following year, she played an unhappily married woman in the romantic drama Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna—one of the top-grossing Bollywood films overseas.[17]
Following a leading role in the financially successful family drama Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007), [18] Mukerji starred primarily in films produced by Yash Raj Films for the next two years.[19] None of these films performed well at the box office,[20] after which she featured as a talent judge for the Sony Entertainment Television reality show Dance Premier League (2009).[21] The role of a headstrong television reporter in the 2011 thriller No One Killed Jessica earned her another Best Supporting Actress trophy at Filmfare,[22] and the film proved to be her first box office success in four years.[23] In 2012 she portrayed a grieving mother in the supernatural thriller Talaash: The Answer Lies Within and in 2014 she appeared as a police officer in the crime thriller Mardaani.[24][25][26] Following a four-year hiatus, Mukerji played a woman suffering from Tourette syndrome in Hichki (2018), which ranks among Hindi cinema's highest-grossing female-led films.[27][28] She reprised her role in Mardaani 2 (2019), a sequel to Mardaani, which was a critical and commercial success.[29]
Films
Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1996 | Biyer Phool | Mili Chatterjee | Bengali film | [1] |
Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat | Mala | [2] | ||
1998 | Ghulam | Alisha | [30] | |
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai | Tina Malhotra | Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress | [4] | |
Mehndi | Pooja | [31] | ||
1999 | Mann | Unknown | Special appearance in song "Kaali Naagin Ke Jaisi" | [32] |
Hello Brother | Rani | [33] | ||
2000 | Badal | Rani | [34] | |
Hey Ram | Aparna Ram | Bilingual film in Tamil and Hindi | [35] | |
Hadh Kar Di Aapne | Anjali Khanna | [36] | ||
Bichhoo | Kiran Bali | [37] | ||
Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega | Pooja Oberoi | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress | [9] | |
Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye | Priya Sharma | [38] | ||
2001 | Chori Chori Chupke Chupke | Priya Malhotra | [39] | |
Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai | Pooja Shrivastav | [40] | ||
Nayak: The Real Hero | Manjari | [41] | ||
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... | Naina Kapoor | Special Appearance | [42] | |
2002 | Pyaar Diwana Hota Hai | Payal Khurana | [43] | |
Mujhse Dosti Karoge! | Pooja Sahani | [44] | ||
Saathiya | Dr. Suhani Sharma Sehgal | Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress |
[9] | |
Chalo Ishq Ladaaye | Sapna | [45] | ||
2003 | Chalte Chalte | Priya Chopra | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [9] |
Chori Chori | Khushi Malhotra | [46] | ||
Calcutta Mail | Bulbul/Reema[I] | [47] | ||
Kal Ho Naa Ho | Unknown | Special appearance in song "Mahi Ve" | [48] | |
LOC Kargil | Hema | [49] | ||
2004 | Yuva | Shashi Biswas | Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress | [9] |
Hum Tum | Rhea Prakash | Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [9] | |
Veer-Zaara | Saamiya Siddiqui | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress | [9] | |
2005 | Black | Michelle McNally | Filmfare Award for Best Actress Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress |
[9] |
Bunty Aur Babli | Vimmi "Babli" Saluja | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [9] | |
Paheli | Lachchi Bhanwarlal | [50] | ||
Mangal Pandey: The Rising | Heera | [51] | ||
2006 | Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna | Maya Talwar | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [9] |
Baabul | Malvika "Milli" Talwar Kapoor | [52] | ||
2007 | Ta Ra Rum Pum | Radhika "Shona" Shekhar Rai Banerjee | [53] | |
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag | Vibhavari "Badki" Sahay/Natasha[I] | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [9] | |
Saawariya | Gulab | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress | [9] | |
Om Shanti Om | Herself | Special appearance in song "Deewangi Deewangi" | [54] | |
2008 | Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic | Geeta | [55] | |
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi | Unknown | Special appearance in song "Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte" | [56] | |
2009 | Luck by Chance | Herself | Cameo appearance | [57] |
Dil Bole Hadippa! | Veera Kaur/Veer Pratap Singh[II] | [58] | ||
2011 | No One Killed Jessica | Meera Gaity | Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress | [22] |
2012 | Aiyyaa | Meenakshi Deshpande | [59] | |
Talaash: The Answer Lies Within | Roshni Shekhawat | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress | [60] | |
2013 | Bombay Talkies | Gayatri | In the segment Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh | [61] |
2014 | Mardaani | Shivani Shivaji Roy | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [62] [63] |
2018 | Hichki | Naina Mathur | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [64] [65] |
Zero | Herself | Special appearance | [66] | |
2019 | Mardaani 2 | Shivani Shivaji Roy | Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress | [67] |
2021 | Bunty Aur Babli 2 | Babli | Filming | [68] |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Episode(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | Dance Premier League | Judge | 24 episodes | [21] |
2011 | C.I.D. | Meera Gaity | "Abhijeet Ke Ateet Ka Raaz" | [69] |
Documentaries
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2000 | Bollywood im Alpenrausch | Herself | Swiss documentary film Uncredited; cameo appearance |
[70] |
2002 | Gambling, Gods and LSD | Herself | Canadian-Swiss documentary film Cameo appearance |
[71] |
2005 | The Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan | Herself | British documentary film | [72] |
Music video appearances
Year | Title | Performer(s) | Role | Album | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2002 | "Tera Chehra" | Adnan Sami | Unknown | Tera Chehra | [73] [74] |
Footnotes
^[I] She played a single character who has two different names.[75][76]
^[II] She played the role of a woman who masquerades as a man.[77]
^[III] Bombay Talkies consisted of four short films, directed by Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar.[78]
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