Rani Mukherji Chopra, one of Bollywood’s most popular and talented veteran actresses, born on March 21, 1978, in Mumbai. Rani is part of a filmy family which includes cousins actress Kajol and Ayan Mukerji, a screenwriter, and director. When she was eighteen, Rani had a supporting part in her film director father’s Bengali film ‘Biyer Phool’ (1996). In her next film, ’Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat’ (1997), she received praise for her role as a rape victim. In 1998, Rani had a breakthrough year with ‘Ghulam’, co-starring Aamir Khan, and ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ co-starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol. She won her first Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress in KKHH. Rani was a leading actress throughout the 2000s, known for her versatile choice of films, her dancing, her beauty, and her deep, throaty voice. Some of her top movies are: ‘Saathiya’ (2002), ‘Hum Tum’ (2004), ‘Veer-Zaara’ (2004), ‘Black’ (2005), ‘Bunty Aur Babli’ (2005), ‘Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna’ (2006), ‘No One Killed Jessica’ (2011), and ‘Mardaani’ (2014). Rani took a break from films after marrying filmmaker Aditya Chopra in 2014 and has a daughter Adira. Rani returned to cinema in 2018 with ‘Hichki’, portraying woman who suffers from Tourette Syndrome. In 2019, Rani played a hard-edged policewoman again in ‘Mardaani 2’. She reprised her role of Babli in the sequel “Bunty Aur Babli 2’, which was released in 2021. Rani was last seen in ‘Mrs. Chatterjee Vs Norway’ (2023), the real-life story of a woman whose children were taken away from her by the government of Norway. In 2023, she also appeared in ‘The Romantics’, as herself, a Netflix docu-series on the influence of Yash and Aditya Chopra on the Hindi film industry.