Bollywood icon Rani Mukerji, who has won immense critical and commercial acclaim with her heartwrenching performance in the film `Mrs. Chatterjee vs Norway` (2023), bagged the Best Actress award at IIFA. Rani’s film was the first content film post-pandemic to deliver a theatrical hit, thereby boosting the confidence of the entire industry that high-content films were still viable theatrically. 

Rani Mukerji gives heartwarming speech upon winning Best Actress

On receiving the award, Rani said in her acceptance speech, "It feels incredible to be standing here, receiving the Best Actor Award amid such a warm and wonderful audience and my friends and colleagues from my fraternity for one of the most special films of my career. Receiving this award at IIFA feels even more special as it validates the fact that Mrs. Chatterjee vs Norway made an impact globally in people`s hearts. The film’s success reaffirms the timeless power of storytelling and the universal language of maternal love and human resilience.”