i think i am Adhira's paparazzi i am constantly clicking her so i am with the camera constantly
I've kept them in my heart throughout the film because any film i do after my dad passing away ill always
have something missing in my life because my father was my biggest champions
not that before Nirbhaya such incidence have not taken place but i think Nirbhaya was the first time that
we as the citizens of the country were encountered or we were told that this is a crime that has
happened and this is how it happened
she is a feisty actress and unapologetic women and more than that a doting mother
today i have Rani Mukherji in an emotional conversation with us only on Pinkvilla
welcome Rani maam how have you been welcome to you on Pinkvilla
you're wearing pink see yeah only for Pinkvilla
you know last time when we had spoken you were just coming out of motherhood and Hichki
was your first film i remember you had said exactly these lines that the first day on the shoot
you were travelling and you had jitters for the first time in your career
actually i was crying yeah you were crying the film did tremendously well at the block
office which validated what you were trying to prove to yourself that people still want to see you
did you have any such moments when you started Mardaani 2
no because i think Adira was much older when i started Mardaani 2 she is going to turn 4
in the next month so yeah i was well settled as a mother when i started Mardaani 2 and
i didn't have the nervousness of leaving her behind and going because she is pretty much
having her own kind of life now where she likes to spend time without me ah for sometime so and
yeah i knew eventually so that's going to happen and with the years when she is gonna grow
older she is gonna want to spend a little more time by herself and not with me that much so
it will give me more time yo work on my career and you know yeah so i think Mardaani 2 i didn't have those feelings
Recently Gauri Khan and Kareena Kapoor they all went on record and said that the
paparazzi culture in India is good but its affecting kids and their childhood they have said that
Taimur doesn't like clicking pictures anymore at home also and Abram doesn't like doing out doors because he
he fears being clicked by the people you guys have protected Adira from that was that the
reason and how is she at home like she is growing up what are the things that you guys like
how is she similar to you and Aditya sir in which ways
i think i am Adhira's paparazzi i am constantly clicking her so i am with the camera constantly
yeah so i can't not like the paparazzi because i am paparazzi myself for my daughter so i wont say
otherwise its a very personal decision when parents come and talk about their children in my case
i think um i was very clear and so was Adi that i think Adira needs to have a very normal
upbringing and that can only happen when the attention is not focused on her or she doesn't
feel that she is in the lime light yes also we cannot deny that she automatically becomes known
because she is born in a family where her parent are known so obviously that is a advantage or
a disadvantage that goes with it but still as much as we can we would try but as you said the
paparazzi is everywhere i just hope i can protect her as much as i can and at least in my case the
paparazzi has been very very helpful very understanding everywhere i go when i request them
i have to give it to them they have been super super i would say ah understanding and they don't take
Adira's picture and i think that's wonderful because i don't think anywhere in the world we have
the paparazzi the way we have in India that if you tell them they respect what you tell and they do
understand your point of view toh at least I've been very lucky in that sense
you know Mardaani was a very impactful film for the society i had goosebumps after watching the
Mardaani 2 trailer and i am sure i am not the only one saying this when you heard the story this
is something that is a regular phenomena in India and all over the world today you know brutal
rapes are happening recently also there was a very brutal case when you heard and when you
hear of these stories now you are a mother to a daughter does this horrify you even more
of course it does horrifies me and not just because i have a daughter as a women its always
horrified us and i think the first Mardaani was born because of the Nirbhaya case where i think
as a nation we were you know shaken down ah you know the media for the first time kind off
spoke about the details of the crime and we were shocked that something like this actually
happens not that before Nirbhaya such incidence have not taken place but i think Nirbhaya was
the first time that we as the citizens of the country were encountered or we were told
that this is a crime that has that has happened and this is how it happened and eventually with
her death i think there was this the rage the anger we felt and not only talking about the women
i think the men felt the same way towards the collective anger so we picked up a topic of child
trafficking and we said that this is something girls or women need to be aware of the threat which
is looming large in society today where trafficking is not happening in the borders its
happening right under our noses outside schools outside colleges outside your neighborhood
probably people who you know but Mardaani 2 also was not because we wanted to do a
sequel so desperately why we did it but it have happened over a period of 5 years but because the
adulation and the love and the respect we got with Mardaani 1 it was the fans it was the people
who said we would like to see a sequel of this because its about a woman cop fighting against
women crimes and it actually is a subject that could be made into a franchise and i think with a
lot of thought i think Gopi took about 5 years because he was clear that Rani till we don't find
something as strong as powerful as or as relevant you know there's no point the messaging has to be clear with Mardaani
last question would be that you know during Hichki i remember after watching Hichki i had met you right
after watching Hichki i guess and you had told me that you had lost your father and you were
really emotional and you had said that you had kept the lathi have you kept anything of him
in this film because you had said that you want to
I've kept them in my heart throughout the film because any film i do after my dad passing away ill always
have something missing in my life because my father was my biggest champions
he was my biggest i would say fan he was my biggest critic he was everything to me so every film
i do henceforth after him passing away there'll always be something that is missing in
my life because his i would say point of view of his review was very very important in my life
because he was a filmmaker himself and he was my dad and he was my dotting dad and he would love
everything i walked on so yeah that would be something that i'll always miss
i hope to see you more in films and i hope there's no longer gap now i hope so i hope so I've heard
that you are doing Bunty aur Babli what really where have you heard this from i have not heard
it but i would love it but if Bunty aur Babli 2 is made you have to be in it that's for sure that's a request
from somebody who has loved watching you okay then to Pinkvilla and okay to you and they
are very lucky to have you thank you so much ma'am this was a lovely conversation and all the best for Mardaani 2
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