Bollywood actress, Rani Mukerji is currently on a promotional spree for her upcoming film, Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway. Ever since the trailer of her film was released, the actress has been garnering a lot of appreciation, and her fans are lauding her for her brilliant acting skills. Rani, who left everyone impressed with her acting, recently opened up about how she got into the skin of her character of 'Sagarika Chatterjee' in the film.
During a recent promotional event for her upcoming film, Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway, Rani Mukerji opened up about playing the role of 'Sagarika Chatterjee' and revealed that she has never met real-life Sagarika till now. However, she managed to portray her role as she knew the emotions that Sagarika went through during the difficult phase. Talking about the same, she said:
"I've never met Sagarika because as an actor what I wanted to bring to the table is my interpretation of her character. I didn't want to bring too much baggage to the table. For me, the story of Mrs Chatterjee was about Mrs Chatterjee, and I had to play it cinematically for this film. I knew the emotions she went through because I sat with Ashima Chhiber (director) a billion times through the script. Ashima had a lot of tapes that she had recorded of Sagarika chatting with her so I went through a lot of those tapes. I grabbed what her emotions were because I wanted to understand her emotional graph."
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Reflecting on her character in the film, Rani Mukerji revealed that she couldn't even put herself into Sagarika's shoes. The actress mentioned that she could not fathom the idea of her daughter, Adira being away from her, so she could only think of her mother when she read about the film's character. Narrating her mother's journey, Rani said:
"I don't think I can fathom the idea of my daughter Adira being away from me, so I had to think of my mother because I didn't have the courage to think of Adira. The only person I could think of, after reading this character, was my mom. She is born and brought up in Kolkata, she came to Bombay when she got to my father when she was 21. After 50 years of being in Mumbai, she still sounds like a Bengali when she speaks in Hindi or English. I've just taken my mother and put her into Mrs Chatterjee."
Further in the interview, Rani Mukerji opened up about the impression she had of her mother while growing up. Praising her mother for sticking to her Bengali roots, the actress revealed that when she read the character of 'Mrs Chatterjee', she could only see her mother. Reflecting on the same, Rani said:
"For me, someone who is so connected to her roots, there's nobody else I know more than my mom. She has never left her roots. Whatever impression I had of my mom growing up - a Bengali tigress, the way she fed us with her hands, the way she has given us love - when I read the character of Mrs Chatterjee, I could only see my mother. I could only imagine that if someone took Raja and me away from my mom, she would go completely nuts."
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Rani Mukerji's upcoming film, Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway will release on March 17, 2023. It is based on a real-life story of a helpless mother, Sagarika Chatterjee, whose kids were forcibly taken away by Norway's child welfare society organisation on the basis of her parental instincts like putting kaala teeka on her children and feeding them with her hands. The pre-release screening of the film took place in Mumbai on March 10, 2023.
On the work front, Rani Mukerji was last seen in the action-drama film, Mardaani 2.
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