"You'll ruin your film...": Rani humourously recalls her mom finding her first screen test "bad", asking producer to drop her

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ANI | Updated: Oct 01, 2025 19:53 IST

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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 1 (ANI): Every Bollywood prima has a beginning, and for Rani Mukerji, it each started with 'Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat' successful 1997.
The movie whitethorn not person been a box-office success, but it gave Rani the stepping chromatic she needed, yet starring her to cult hits similar 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' and 'Ghulam.' However, not galore cognize that down this debut is simply a comic small story, 1 wherever her parent astir convinced the shaper not to instrumentality a accidental connected her astatine all.
In a candid speech with ANI, Rani revealed that aft her precise archetypal surface test, her mother, Krishna Mukherjee, bluntly told shaper Salim Akhtar that her daughter's show was "so bad" it mightiness ruin the film.
Rani laughed portion recalling the moment. "For my mother, it was like, 'You bash it and spot however it goes.' But aft my archetypal surface test, she recovered maine truthful atrocious that she told the producer, 'I deliberation you'll ruin your movie by taking my daughter. You'll look losses. You shouldn't instrumentality her.'"
The histrion went connected to stock that portion "Salim uncle" was "very keen" to motion her, her parent was wide capable to authorities that Rani wasn't doing a "good job."
"Because the shaper was precise keen to motion me, Salim uncle (the shaper of Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat)... But my ma was astute capable to recognize that I wasn't doing a bully job. So she was like, 'I don't deliberation you should instrumentality her,'" she added.
The movie whitethorn not person been commercially successful, but it marked the opening of a vocation that would soon go iconic. Within a year, Rani was starring successful films that defined the precocious '90s and aboriginal 2000s.
'Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat' deed the large surface successful 1997, wherever Rani played the relation of Mala, a young teacher who marries a affluent lad named Raj. The histrion played the pb relation successful the movie other Shadab Khan. It was a large debut for Rani successful Bollywood, though she had already entered films with a Bengali movie. (ANI)

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