Rani stands up for fellow actresses
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Rani Mukerji took one for the women’s team on her 40th birthday yesterday as she posted a letter on the challenges faced by actresses. They are dispensable and are constantly judged based on the way they dress, speak and age, wrote Mukerji. “I have tried to take on this sexist stereotype by coming back to acting after my marriage and motherhood. And I promise you, I will continue battling these stereotypes with all my fellow stunning, kind and talented actresses,” she wrote. Rani Mukerji in such stories come to me somehow. But playing the role in Black changed my life dramatically. I have learnt a lot as a person after that experience. I have learnt how to be less complaining and how to be a better person through
Black. You need to learn how to grab on to the opportunities and turn your weaknesses into strengths and that’s what I learnt during filming Black. Hichki has a similar message where you talk about turning your weaknesses into strength. Rani Mukerji presents a ‘Hichki’ Teachers’ Award to Sandeep
Vashisht at Mall Emirates, Dubai of the on Monday.
What do you want the audience to take away from Was the original film
your only reference point?
More than the film Front Of The Class, Brad Cohen was my inspiration point to be playing this character. What I would love the audience to take
back is to dwell on the education system in schools. I am sure such problems exists everywhere in different parts of the world and is not limited to India. Teachers will be able to relate to the teaching methods in the film. They may even be inspired to practice it. It may also trigger discussions among students about the discriminations and problems that they face in their lives today. Everybody in the audience may have been a student at some point in their lives, so the film will resonate with them too. Hichki is a film for all generations and it illustrates how you should never to give up on your selves, your ideas, your aspirations and your dreams. Somewhere down the line, you may have also come across people who may have discouraged you to achieve your goals, but you still