Rani Mukerji filmography

Mukerji at a promotional event for Dil Bole Hadippa! in 2009

Rani Mukerji is an Indian actress known for her work in Bollywood films. She made her screen debut with a supporting 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 1997 social drama Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat, a financial failure but notable for earning her a special jury trophy at the Screen Awards ceremony.^[2] In 1998 she received public 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 the comedy film Hello Brother (1999), the action thriller Bichhoo (2000), and the drama Nayak: The Real Hero (2001), none of which helped propel her career forward.^[5][6][7] A supporting role in Kamal Hassan's bilingual film Hey Ram (2000) was more notable, as the film was selected to be India's official entry to the Academy Awards for that year.^[8]

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 garnered her a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.^[9][10] That same year she featured in a music video for Adnan Sami's song "Tera Chehra".^[11] 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.^[12][13][14] Also that year, she starred in Veer-Zaara—the highest-grossing Bollywood film of the year.^[15] 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.^[16][17] She also played a con woman that year in the highly successful comedy film Bunty aur Babli.^[18] For her performance in Black, she was awarded the Best Actress and Best Actress – Critics trophies at the Filmfare Awards ceremony.^[10] The following year, she played an unhappily married woman in the drama Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna—one of the top grossing Bollywood films in overseas.^[19]

Following a leading role in the financially successful family drama Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007), ^[20] Mukerji starred primarily in films produced by Yash Raj Films for the next two years.^[21] None of these films performed well at the box office,^[22] after which she featured as a talent judge for the Sony Entertainment Television reality show Dance Premier League (2009).^[23] The role of Meera Gaity, a headstrong television reporter in the 2011 semi-biographical thriller No One Killed Jessica earned her another Best Supporting Actress trophy at Filmfare,^[24] and the film proved to be her first box office success in four years.^[25] She also reprised the role of Gaity for an episode of the C.I.D. television series.^[26] 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.^[27][28][29]

Films

Title	Year	Role	Director(s)	Notes	Ref.
Biyer Phool	1996	Mili Chatterjee	Ram Mukherjee	Bengali film	[1]
Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat	1997	Mala	Ashok Gaikwad		[2]
Ghulam	1998	Alisha	Vikram Bhatt		[30]
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai	1998	Tina Malhotra	Karan Johar	Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress	[4]
Mehndi	1998	Pooja	Hamid Ali		[31]
Mann	1999	Unknown	Indra Kumar	Special appearance in song "Kaali Naagin Ke Jaisi"	[32]
Hello Brother	1999	Rani	Sohail Khan		[33]
Badal	2000	Rani	Raj Kanwar		[34]
Hey Ram	2000	Aparna Ram	Kamal Haasan	Bilingual film in Tamil and Hindi	[35]
Hadh Kar Di Aapne	2000	Anjali Khanna	Manoj Agrawal		[36]
Bichhoo	2000	Kiran Bali	Guddu Dhanoa		[37]
Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega	2000	Pooja Oberoi	Raj Kanwar	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress	[10]
Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye	2000	Priya Sharma	K. Murali Mohan Rao		[38]
Chori Chori Chupke Chupke	2001	Priya Malhotra	Abbas-Mustan		[39]
Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai	2001	Pooja Shrivastav	Goldie Behl		[40]
Nayak: The Real Hero	2001	Manjari	Shankar		[41]
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...	2001	Naina Kapoor	Karan Johar	Guest appearance	[42]
Pyaar Diwana Hota Hai	2002	Payal Khurana	Kirti Kumar		[43]
Mujhse Dosti Karoge!	2002	Pooja Sahani	Kunal Kohli		[44]
Saathiya	2002	Dr. Suhani Sharma Sehgal	Shaad Ali	Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[10]
Chalo Ishq Ladaaye	2002	Sapna	Aziz Sejawal		[45]
Chalte Chalte	2003	Priya Chopra	Aziz Mirza	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[10]
Chori Chori	2003	Khushi Malhotra	Milan Luthria		[46]
Calcutta Mail	2003	Bulbul/Reema^[I]	Sudhir Mishra		[47]
Kal Ho Naa Ho	2003	Unknown	Nikhil Advani	Special appearance in song "Mahi Ve"	[48]
LOC Kargil	2003	Hema	J.P. Dutta		[49]
Yuva	2004	Shashi Biswas	Mani Ratnam	Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress	[10]
Hum Tum	2004	Rhea Prakash	Kunal Kohli	Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[10]
Veer-Zaara	2004	Saamiya Siddiqui	Yash Chopra	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress	[10]
Black	2005	Michelle McNally	Sanjay Leela Bhansali	Filmfare Award for Best Actress Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress	[10]
Bunty Aur Babli	2005	Vimmi "Babli" Saluja	Shaad Ali	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[10]
Paheli	2005	Lachchi Bhanwarlal	Amol Palekar		[50]
Mangal Pandey: The Rising	2005	Heera	Ketan Mehta		[51]
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	2006	Maya Talwar	Karan Johar	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[10]
Baabul	2006	Malvika "Milli" Talwar Kapoor	Ravi Chopra		[52]
Ta Ra Rum Pum	2007	Radhika "Shona" Shekhar Rai Banerjee	Siddharth Anand		[53]
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag	2007	Vibhavari "Badki" Sahay/Natasha^[I]	Pradeep Sarkar	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[10]
Saawariya	2007	Gulab	Sanjay Leela Bhansali	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress	[10]
Om Shanti Om	2007	Herself	Farah Khan	Special appearance in song "Deewangi Deewangi"	[54]
Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic	2008	Geeta	Kunal Kohli		[55]
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi	2008	Unknown	Aditya Chopra	Special appearance in song "Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte"	[56]
Luck by Chance	2009	Herself	Zoya Akhtar	Cameo appearance	[57]
Dil Bole Hadippa!	2009	Veera Kaur/Veer Pratap Singh^[II]	Anurag Singh		[58]
No One Killed Jessica	2011	Meera Gaity	Raj Kumar Gupta	Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress	[24]
Aiyyaa	2012	Meenakshi Deshpande	Sachin Kundalkar		[59]
Talaash: The Answer Lies Within	2012	Roshni Shekhawat	Reema Kagti	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress	[60]
Bombay Talkies	2013	Gayatri	Karan Johar^[III]	In the segment Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh	[61]
Mardaani	2014	Shivani Shivaji Roy	Pradeep Sarkar	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress	[62] [63]

Television

Title	Year	Role	Creator	Episode(s)	Ref.
Dance Premier League	2009	Judge	Cineyug	24 episodes	[23]
C.I.D.	2011	Meera Gaity	B. P. Singh	"Abhijeet Ke Ateet Ka Raaz"	[26]

Documentaries

Title	Year	Role	Director(s)	Notes	Ref.
Bollywood im Alpenrausch	2000	Herself	Christian Frei	Swiss documentary film Uncredited; cameo appearance	[64]
Gambling, Gods and LSD	2002	Herself	Peter Mettler	Canadian-Swiss documentary film Cameo appearance	[65]
The Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan	2005	Herself	Nasreen Munni Kabir	British documentary film	[66]

Music video appearances

Title	Year	Performer(s)	Director(s)	Role	Album	Ref.
"Tera Chehra"	2002	Adnan Sami	Bela Sehgal	Unknown	Tera Chehra	[11] [67]

Footnotes

^{^[I]} She played a single character who has two different names.^{[68][69]
^[II]} She played the role of a woman who masquerades as a man.^{[70]
^[III]} Bombay Talkies consisted of four short films, directed by Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar.^[71]

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Rani Mukerji

References

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External links

• Rani Mukerji at the Internet Movie Database
• Rani Mukerji on Bollywood Hungama