Rani Mukerji Reveals Why Her Daughter Was Not Allowed At National Awards: 'We Were Told...'

Rani Mukerji won her first-ever National Award earlier this week. She was honoured with the Best Actress National Award for her performance in the movie, Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway. At the ceremony, which

was held in New Delhi, Rani sported a pendant with her daughter Adira’s name engraved on it. While Rani’s necklace had grabbed everyone’s attention, the actress has now revealed that she wore it because her daughter could not attend the ceremony.

In a recent interview with India Today, Rani revealed that her daughter wanted to attend the National Awards ceremony. However, they were told that children under the age of 14 were not allowed. When Adira could not accompany her mother at the ceremony, Rani decided to sport a pendant with her name.

“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” Rani recalled.

“She’s my lucky charm. I wanted her with me, and this was the closest I could do,” she added.

“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,” the actress shared.

Rani also spoke about winning the National Award for her 2023 movie and said, “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.