Rani Mukerji is preparing for the release of Bunty Aur Babli 2, her forthcoming flick. Rani admitted in a new interview that she was hesitant to enter Bollywood because she thought she was “very short” and her voice was “not heroine-friendly.”
Rani talked up about her path from not wanting to be an actor to how star Kamal Haasan helped her break stereotypical patterns’ in Bollywood in an interview with IndiaToday.com.
“Strangely, I never wanted to be an actor,” she added. Before I could realize my dream, my mother did. She was the one who persuaded me to make my first film. But I’ve never considered myself a heroine in the traditional sense. I’m the polar opposite of a heroine. My height is quite small, my voice is not heroine-friendly, and my skin has a wheatish color. I don’t think I ever imagined myself as an actress when I first started. I grew up watching movie beauties like Sridevi, Juhi, Madhuri, and Rekha ji, and I never pictured myself up there with them.”
“As my trip began, I spoke with several stalwarts with whom I had the opportunity to work,” she continued. Mr. Kamal Haasan was one of them, and performers like him advised me that you can’t evaluate your success by your physical stature, but by how much you can progress professionally. So, in my early days in Bollywood, I shattered all those conventional conventions that an actress was subjected to.”
Rani will star alongside Saif Ali Khan in Bunty Aur Babli 2, marking their first onscreen collaboration in over a decade. The film stars Siddhant Chaturvedi and Sharvari Wagh as a copycat con pair and is directed by Varun V Sharma. The film is set to be released on Friday.
