Rani Mukherjee has finally given an answer to her critics who were in tearing hurry to label her chapter closed in bollywood. With NO ONE KILLED JESSICA getting an upbeat response from the audiences, Rani is hogging the spotlight once again.

The success of the film has made Rani more forthcoming with the media too. Some time back, Rani used to shudder with fear about media being on an overdrive to fathom the truth surrounding her personal and professional life. 

Now, it’s a different story. Rani is upbeat about her professional life and loves to share a slice of it often.

Speaking about her personal and professional life in one breath, Rani says, “The success of NO ONE KILLED JESSICA is my answer to critics who thought my career was over. Not only my professional life but my personal life is witnessing a high too. To be honest, I look better than my twenties now. I’m being honest about this. Growing in age has never bothered me. I have just entered my thirties and I think I’m set for the best years of my life.” More

Rani Mukerji, who comes from a film family and has been active in the industry for 13 years, says she was naïve and innocent but has become smarter with time.

“From the time I began to now the only change in me has been that I have become more confident. I was very naïve and innocent before. I have become smarter now because you have to be smart to be in this industry,” Rani told.

“When I had started I used to get hurt about certain things, but today I have been able to develop a slightly thicker skin than I had. That has been the only change in me,” added the 32-year-old.

The actress is all set for “No One Killed Jessica”, where she will be playing a news reporter. Releasing Jan 7, the film, based on the murder of model Jessica Lall, is the first big release of the year. Source

Rani Mukherjee’s last three films – DIL BOLE HADIPPA, THODA PYAAR THODA MAGIC, LAAGA CHUNRI MAIN DAAG, despite coming from a banner like Yash Raj Films, were duds. Now, the bold & beautiful, Rani is back in news with her upcoming film NO ONE KILLED JESSICA and all hopes are pinned on her latest film.

It is being touted that NO ONE KILLED JESSICA will help resurrecting Rani’s fading career. However, Rani gets agitated with such reports, “When everybody says Rani Mukherjee is finished I feel bad but at the same time I feel happy that now I can bounce back.”

She says that no one can make or break her position in the industry.

“My career is already made so I don’t think anyone can break or make my career. It’s my fans who decide to make me the star that I am. It’s because of them I am here. I don’t think any one person from the media can be responsible to make or break me. The only thing that can break me ever is when the love of my audiences will not be with me anymore or the fact that audiences don’t want to see me anymore,” says the optimistic actress.

Well Rani, we are hopeful that NO ONE KILLED JESSICA will shut all those wagging tongues when the film releases on 7th January 2010. Source

Rani Mukerji and Aditya Chopra are all set to tie the knot early next year. Or are they? According to reports circulating in the media, an engagement is soon on the cards for this actress – director jodi who apparently became close to one another during the time they spent working in various films together. The Rani Mukerji – Aditya Chopra relationship had created quite a furore in the recent past when the news first surfaced in the media. Apparently, Aditya’s relationship with Rani was the cause of his breakup with Payel Khanna, his wife of eight years.

Though the news has not been confirmed by the families of Rani Mukerji or Aditya Chopra, the media has been speculating on the impending wedding ever since Payel Khanna filed divorce papers last year. It had also been reported then that Yash Chopra, father of Aditya Chopra and the head of the Yash Raj Films banner, did not support his son when he started his illicit relationship with Rani Mukerji.

If all goes according to plans, the couple will get engaged formally early next year and will also tie the knot very soon after the engagement. Though Rani Mukerji and Aditya Chopra have been in a relationship for quite a long time now, they have been very low key about their affair. Source

Bengali beauty Rani Mukerji, who last shared screen space with Aamir Khan in 2005, will be seen opposite him yet again in Reema Katgi’s upcoming suspense drama. ‘I am doing a film with Aamir. Over the years our chemistry will only get better, so it’ll be better in this film,’  said Rani.

‘For me its wonderful to work with Aamir and specially after so long because the last film I did with him was Mangal Pandey: The Rising and over there also it was not a film based on us. But this one is more about us,’ she added. The 32-year-old also revealed that Aamir and Shah Rukh Khan were her favourite actors.

‘Shah Rukh and Aamir have always been my favourites and I have learnt a lot from them in my professional pursuits and in my life. It is my great honour that I worked with them in such wonderful films. I can do anything for them,’ she said.

The actress, who was last seen opposite Shah Rukh in a full fledged role in 2006′s Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, said she wanted to work with him soon.

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The bong beauty Rani Mukerji enjoys being a part of women-centric films and says she would like do a movie where a woman is projected as a strong person.

‘Whatever films I have been a part of so far, most of them have been women-centric films. I wish to do more such films where women are shown stronger because it is a fact that women are stronger,’ Rani, who gave hits like ‘Bunty Aur Babli’ and ‘Saathiya’, told reporters here Friday.

Her role in the upcoming film ‘No One Killed Jessica’ would be a reflection of her belief where she would be seen in the role of a television journalist.

The actress was in the capital to be a part of Plan India’s fund raising auction and support the organisation’s global gender equity and equality campaign – Because I Am A Girl. Plan India promotes child rights and works to improve the quality of life of vulnerable children in India.

Rani made her Bollywood debut with the woman-centric film ‘Raja Aayegi Baraat’. She was later seen in films like ‘Mehendi’, ‘Black’, ‘Laaga Chunari Mein Daag’, ‘Hum Tum’, ‘Yuva’ and ‘Veer Zaara’ among others. More

Celebrity designer Manish Malhotra’s shows are known for their heavy dose of Bollywood presence and it was not surprising that A-list actresses like Priyanka Chopra, Rani Mukjerji and Priety Zinta dazzled in the guest gallery at his offering at the Lakme Fashion Week.

The show, which was sponsored by Aircel to promote its Save The Tiger Initiative, was attended by most of Malhotra’s close friends and Bollywood actress including Urmila Matondkar, Sonakshi Sinha, Sameera Reddy and Sangeeta Bijlani.

The girl gang occupied front row and visibly enjoyed the show as they were seen giggling, clapping and cheering while the models sashayed down the ramp showcasing Malhotra’s designs, which were all contemporary evening wear.

“For me, my clothes are my life and I wake up to it. ‘Save the Tiger’ is also a great cause to support and I’m happy that I collaborated with them,” Malhotra told reporters after the show. More

It might come as a surprise but Rani Mukerji has walked out of Deepa Mehta’s film, an adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s masterpiece novel Midnight’s Children, because she apparently didn’t want to play the mother of a 14-year-old. That she happily played a mother of two kids in Yash Raj Films’ Ta Ra Rum Pum almost three years ago is another matter. A source says, “She asked Mehta that how she can play the mother of a 14-year old when she herself is just 30? She preferred to leave the film instead.”
 
Initially, Rani was quite excited about the idea of working with Mehta as it would have been the first time in her 13-year career that she would have worked with a female director. Reportedly, she had even met Rushdie and Mehta in Toronto for the same. Mehta confirmed that Rani is no longer in her film. She also said that Rani had informed her about the same. “Rani was required to play a mother in a section of the film, but there is no kid in the film who is 14 years old,” said the filmmaker.

However, Mehta dismissed the buzz that Rani turned her down because she didn’t want to play a teenager’s mother. She said, “Rani had some personal reasons for not doing the film. I cannot disclose the reasons because there are some things, which are confidential between a director and an actor. I have great regard for Rani and total respect for why she is not working with me in this film.” More

Rani Mukherjee’s brother Raaja Mukerji who has been associated with a lot of television serials as a producer, is now working on his first home production — Life Ise Gale Laga Le. The film is a romantic drama and it written and directed by Yogesh Pagare. Shooting of the film is scheduled to start in January 2010.

Asked if Rani Mukerji will also star or will have any role to play in or around the movie to which Raaja said, “Rani’s good wishes and support is always there for her family and in all their ventures.” Starring Adhyayan Suman, Divya Dutta, Sushant Singh, Aushima Sawhney, Rahul Dev, introducing Vaibhavi Upadhyay, Puneet Vashist and Anita Hassanandani,

Life Ise Gale Laga Le is a reverse journey from death to life.  Source

The latest hottie diva Rani Mukherjee collected her trophy at the V Shantaram Awards ceremony held in honour of the late great film-maker, responsible for many significant films of the golden era of the 1950s including the classic Do Aankhen Barah Haath. Rani’s award was in recognition of her performance in Dil Bole Hadippa. “This feels great because getting a V. Shantaram award means a lot to me,” she said, “We all know that we are the unfortunate ones who were not born in his era and didn’t get an opportunity to work with him.”

Prakash Raj won the Best Male Actor Award for his role in Kanchivaram, a gripping tale of poverty in India near the end of British colonial rule and the political forces that will help to shape India’s destiny. The film was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008 and has gone on to win several awards. It co-stars Shriya Reddy. Kanchivaram also won the Best Film Gold Award.

The Marathi film Gabhricha Paus won the Silver Award. The film highlights the plight of farmers in drought-stricken Maharashtra leading to high rates of suicide as they struggle against environmental change and the lack of any coherent government strategy for agricultural support. The film stars Sonali Kulkarni.

On the 50th anniversary of her ht musical Navrang, Sandhya picked up a Lifetime Achievement Award. Sandhya was the third wife of the late film-maker V Shantaram. Source

Well, If rumors are to be believed the former queen of Bollywood Rani Mukherjee, is contemplating to settle down with beau Aditya Chopra. Now rumor mongers have been speculating her marriage since a while but only this time around they are sure that the much awaited shaadi is on the cards soon.

Rani’s comeback movie ‘Dil Bole Hadippa!’ bombed at the box office giving gossip churners strong reasons that she will soon head to walk the aisle. As if all that was not enough, some insiders claim that Rani performed some kind of special puja this year at the Santacruz Durga Puja Pandal, which is being run by her family since years.

What’s new you might wonder? She does that every year, yes , she does, but this year Rani performed some rituals and puja done by women gearing up to get married soon. All we can do is wait and watch if there is any truth to this story or even this one seems to be just one of the speculations. Source

Rani Mukherjee is the most crest-fallen and heart broken actress now. Why? Well…her hopes and dreams have sunk more miserably than anything. After all, her Dil Bole Hadippa was supposed thrust her back to a position she had so dearly clutched all these years. It is heard that the lady has not taken the debacle well and has slipped into depression. Poor girl!

It seems all odds are against her. Far from being sympathetic towards the heart-broken lass, people are painting the tabloids with the stories of her unaccountability on the sets. You see…industry always salutes the rising sun, Rani! The people who had once raved about her performance are now silently murmuring against her by staying anonymous. An actress who had acted with Rani in Lagaa Chunri Mei Daag said that Rani used to be very unprofessional on the sets. She never used to listen to director Pradeep Sarkar’s instructions. Every time he used to explain a plot, she would make faces giving the impression that she’s bored. Oh….do we here Rani crying, “media spreads rumours’? But here, media is saying nothing dear…these are your ‘friends’ who are spilling the beans. More