Rani Mukerji, who recently won her first-ever National Award, earlier this week left the internet in awe after sporting a necklace carrying her daughter Adira`s name on it. The actress was honoured with the Best Actress National Award for her performance in the movie, Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway. Rani has now revealed that she wore the necklace because her daughter could not attend the ceremony.
Rani Mukerji on Adira`s name language
In a recent interview with India Today, Rani shared that her daughter wanted to attend the National Awards ceremony. However, they were told that children under the age of 14 were not allowed at the venue. When Rani couldn`t take her daughter along at the ceremony, she decided to wear a pendant with her name.
During her session, `Queen of Reinvention: National Award to Motherhood, Winning it All`, Rani revealed that the necklace was her way of keeping her daughter close on a day that meant so much to her. She said her daughter was eager to attend the function but was left heartbroken, recalling, “She was howling because she wanted to be part of the National Award function. We were told that children under 14 were not allowed. I had to tell her that you cannot be with me. She said it was ‘unfair’ that she couldn’t be with me on my special day. I asked her not to worry and told her that I will have you with me on my special day.”
“She’s my lucky charm. I wanted her with me, and this was the closest I could do,” she added.
Rani Mukerji thanks fans for the edits
She also expressed gratitude to the fans who noticed the gesture and made viral reels about it, saying it helped comfort Adira after missing the ceremony. “I want to thank everyone who made those reels and snippets on Instagram, writing that ‘Rani carried her daughter along.’ I showed them to Adira, and it calmed her down,” Mukerji shared.
Rani opened up about winning the National Award for her 2023 movie, saying, “So about Mrs Chatterjee, what input I had on the character, I actually modelled that on my mother. It is the closest that I could be to Bengali women who are Calcutta (Kolkata) born and brought up there. Because I have lived my life and grown up in Mumbai.”
“The only person who I could think of was my mother and I modelled Devika’s character as to exactly what she would be and how she was. And when I grew up, that’s what I saw and how my mother raised me. Completely got my mother in my head and I played the character of Devika like her,” she added.
