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Happy Birthday Rani Mukerji: She was the only actor to be invited by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the official banquet in honour of visiting President General Pervez Musharraf. Rani was invited as she was the favorite actor of Begum Sehba Musharraf and her role in Veer-Zara was very well appreciated by President Musharraf.
Rani who was not in movies for quite some time is making a comeback on 23rd March with the release of her film Hichki which means hiccups. She plays the role of a person having Tourette Syndrome where an individual makes involuntary sudden sounds and movements. The movie is inspired by the real-life success story of American motivational speaker, teacher and author Brad Cohen.
As a part of promotion for the movie Rani interviewed her popular costars about Hichkis in their lives. Shah Rukh Khan said it was his parents death, for Katrina Kaif it was dancing and for Ajay Devgn it was comments about his ordinary looks, not-hero material.
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Hichki is expected to be one more unusual movie in Rani’s long list of films with different and unconventional roles in her outstanding professional career which has seen no hichki.
Today on her birthday on 21st March let us have a look at some rare trivia about her.
Her family tree; the Mukherjee-Samarth family
Rani is from the legendary Mukherjee-Samarth family. Her father is producer Ram Mukherjee, son of Ravindramohan Mukherjee who was the elder brother of Filmalaya studios founder the legendary Sasadhar Mukherjee. Sasadhar’s son was the popular Joy Mukherjee. Joy’s brother Deb is father-in-law of Ashutosh Gowarikar while another brother Shomu married Tanuja and they are parents of Kajol, Ajay Devgn’s wife and a huge star in her own right.
Tanuja is from the famous Samarth family in which the 1st star was Shobana Samarth. Her daughters are Nutan and Tanuja. Nutan was also a huge huge star. Her son Mohnish Behl is a popular actor as well. For some time Rani was considered a second fiddle to her popular cousin Kajol, until she established herself in her own right.