Hindi film actress Rani Mukerji made her screen debut in Biyer Phool (1996), a Bengali film directed by her father Ram Mukherjee. Her first leading role was that of a rape victim in the 1996 social drama Raja Ki Aayegi Baaraat. In 1998 she received wider recognition for her role alongside Aamir Khan in the action film Ghulam, and had her breakthrough as the romantic interest of Shah Rukh Khan's character in the romantic drama Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. The latter earned Mukerji her first Filmfare Award in the Best Supporting Actress category. She followed this by playing the leading lady in several films, including Hello Brother (1999) and Nayak: The Real Hero (2001), none of which helped propel her career forward.

Mukerji's career prospects improved in 2002 when she starred in Yash Raj Films' Saathiya, a romantic drama that gained her a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress. For her roles in the 2004 romantic comedy Hum Tum and the composite drama Yuva, Mukerji became the only actress to win both the Filmfare Award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively, in the same year. Also that year, she starred in Veer-Zaara—the highest-grossing Bollywood film of the year. In 2005, she received praise for portraying a blind, deaf and mute woman in the drama Black, and played a con woman in the crime comedy film Bunty Aur Babli. For her performance in Black, she was awarded the Best Actress and Best Actress (Critics) trophies at Filmfare. The following year, she played an unhappily married woman in the drama Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna — the top-grossing Bollywood film in overseas at that point.

Following a leading role in the financially successful drama Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007), Mukerji starred primarily in films produced by Yash Raj Films for the next two years. None of these films performed well at the box office, after which she featured as a talent judge for the Sony Entertainment Television reality show Dance Premier League (2009). The role of a headstrong television reporter in the 2011 thriller No One Killed Jessica earned her another Best Supporting Actress trophy at Filmfare, and the film proved to be her first box office success in four years. In 2012, she portrayed a grieving mother in the supernatural thriller Talaash: The Answer Lies Within and in 2014 she appeared as a police officer in the crime thriller Mardaani. Following a four-year hiatus, Mukerji played a woman suffering from Tourette syndrome in Hichki (2018), which ranks among Hindi cinema's highest-grossing female-led films. She reprised her role in the sequel Mardaani 2 (2019), which was also a commercial success. In 2023, she starred as the real-life character of a woman whose children were taken away by the Norwegian Child Welfare Services in the drama Mrs. Chatterjee vs Norway, which emerged as a sleeper hit and won her another Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.

Films

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1996	Biyer Phool	Mili Chatterjee	Bengali film
	Raja Ki Aayegi Baaraat	Mala	Credited as Ranee
1998	Ghulam	Alisha
	Kuch Kuch Hota Hai	Tina Malhotra
	Mehndi	Pooja
1999	Mann	Item Number	Special appearance in song "Kaali Naagin Ke Jaisi"
	Hello Brother	Rani
2000	Badal	Rani
	Hey Ram	Aparna Ram	Bilingual film in Tamil and Hindi
	Hadh Kar Di Aapne	Anjali Khanna
	Bichhoo	Kiran Bali
	Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega	Pooja Oberoi
	Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye	Priya Sharma
2001	Chori Chori Chupke Chupke	Priya Malhotra
	Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai	Pooja Shrivastav
	Nayak: The Real Hero	Manjari
	Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...	Naina Kapoor	Guest appearance
2002	Pyaar Diwana Hota Hai	Payal Khurana
	Mujhse Dosti Karoge!	Pooja Sahani
	Saathiya	Dr. Suhani Sharma Sehgal
	Chalo Ishq Ladaaye	Sapna
2003	Chalte Chalte	Priya Chopra Mathur
	Chori Chori	Khushi Malhotra
	Calcutta Mail	Bulbul / Reema
	Kal Ho Naa Ho	Dancer	Special appearance in song "Maahi Ve"
	LOC: Kargil	Hema
2004	Yuva	Shashi Biswas
	Hum Tum	Rhea Prakash
	Veer-Zaara	Saamiya Siddiqui
2005	Black	Michelle McNally
	Bunty Aur Babli	Vimmi "Babli" Saluja
	Paheli	Lachchi Bhanwarlal
	Mangal Pandey: The Rising	Heera
2006	Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	Maya Talwar
	Baabul	Malvika "Milli" Talwar Kapoor
2007	Ta Ra Rum Pum	Radhika "Shona" Shekhar Rai Banerjee
	Laaga Chunari Mein Daag	Vibhavari "Badki" Sahay / Natasha
	Saawariya	Gulab
	Om Shanti Om	Herself	Special appearance in song "Deewangi Deewangi"
2008	Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic	Geeta
	Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi	Herself	Special appearance in song "Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte"
2009	Luck by Chance	Herself	Cameo appearance
	Dil Bole Hadippa!	Veera Kaur / Veer Pratap Singh
2011	No One Killed Jessica	Meera Gaity
2012	Aiyyaa	Meenakshi Deshpande
	Talaash: The Answer Lies Within	Roshni Shekhawat
2013	Bombay Talkies	Gayatri	Segment: Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh
2014	Mardaani	Shivani Shivaji Roy
2018	Hichki	Naina Mathur
	Zero	Herself	Special appearance
2019	Mardaani 2	Shivani Shivaji Roy
2021	Bunty Aur Babli 2	Vimmi "Babli" Trivedi
2023	Mrs. Chatterjee vs Norway	Debika Chatterjee

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2009	Dance Premier League	Judge
2011	C.I.D.	Meera Gaity	Episode: "Abhijeet Ke Ateet Ka Raaz"
2013	Saraswatichandra	Herself
2018	Yeh Hai Mohabbatein	Naina Mathur	Guest appearance
2023	The Romantics	Herself	Documentary series

Documentary

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2000	Bollywood im Alpenrausch	Herself	Swiss documentary film Uncredited; cameo appearance
2002	Gambling, Gods and LSD	Herself	Canadian-Swiss documentary film Cameo appearance
2005	The Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan	Herself	British documentary film

Music videos

Year	Title	Performer(s)	Role	Album	Ref.
2002	"Tera Chehra"	Adnan Sami	Unnamed	Tera Chehra

Footnotes

She played a single character who has two different names.
She played the role of a woman who masquerades as a man.
Bombay Talkies consisted of four short films, directed by Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar.

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Rani Mukerji