Rani Mukerji is a cinematic icon of our times and one of the most successful heroines in the history of Indian cinema. She has often chosen versatile and unconventional films and roles that set a precedent for representing and celebrating women in India. For Rani, we are still in a work-in-progress society – she says she wants to do her bit by choosing roles that show women taking on patriarchy and winning against it.

Rani says, ”I love to be a part of stories where the woman is the agent of change, where a woman is strong enough to take on a system and alter it for the good and where a woman dares to take on patriarchy, the so-called glass ceiling and smash it with her ambition and talent. These are the roles that I naturally gravitate to because I have always wanted to show women as fiercely independent builders of our nation.“