Speaking at the 2023 Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) in Australia, ‘Hichki’ actress Rani Mukerji, who is well-known for her versatility, revealed that she had a miscarriage while expecting her second child amid the Covid-19 epidemic in 2020.
Mukerji was quoted at the festival by Business Today as stating, “Maybe this is the first time I am making this revelation because, in today’s world, every aspect of your life is discussed publicly, and becomes an agenda for talking about your film to get more eyeballs,”.
I didn’t speak about this when I was promoting the film because it would have come across as me trying to speak about a personal experience that would propel the film… so, it was around the year when Covid-19 struck. It was 2020. I got pregnant with my second baby at the end of 2020 and I unfortunately lost my baby five months into my pregnancy,” the actress stated.
According to Mukerji, the producer of ‘Mrs. Chatterjee vs. Norway’ called her ten days after the loss.
The movie is based on the true account of an Indian couple whose kids were taken away by Norwegian police in 2011. The movie aired on March 17, 2023, in theaters.
“After I lost my baby, Nikhil (Advani) would have called me probably like 10 days later. He told me about the story and I kind of immediately… not that I had to have the loss of a child to feel the emotion but sometimes there is a film in the right time of what you are going through personally to be able for you to connect with it instantly. When I heard the story, I was in disbelief. I never thought in a country like Norway an Indian family would have had to go through,” Mukerji said.
