‘Lost my baby 5 months into my pregnancy’: Rani Mukerji reveals she suffered miscarriage during the pandemic

Rani Mukerji has opened up on a personal tragedy she underwent before filming her comeback venture ‘Mrs. Chatterjee Vs Norway’.

While speaking at the Indian Film Festival, Mukerji revealed that she had a miscarriage in 2020. She conceived her second child in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, but lost the baby five months into the pregnancy.

“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. Obviously, 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,” she told the audience.

She revealed that she channelled her grief into preparing for the role of Debika Chatterjee, an NRI Bengali who engages in the war with the Norwegian government to gain custody of her two kids. Nikhil Advani, one of the producers of the movie contacted her 10 days after the miscarriage. “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,” she told the audience.

Based on Sagarika Chakraborty’s book ‘The Journey Of A Mother’, ‘Mrs. Chatterjee Vs Norway’ is a legal drama that hit the theatres in 2023. The movie went on to be a modest success, earning Rs 36 crore at the box-office.