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Saathiya

  • BBC "As for Rani Mukerjee, she plays the character of a middle class girl with great conviction."
  • Variety "Oberoi makes a likable, unnarcissistic Aditya and pairs well with the vivacious, husky-voiced Mukherji, 24, who's at the top of her game as the all-or-nothing Suhani."
  • Rediff "Rani Mukherji's role is not as demanding as Vivek Oberoi's. Both of them seem to share a comfortable relationship with each other, which translates well on screen." "He [Shaad Ali] brings out good performances from the actors."
  • IndiaFM "Rani Mukherji is efficient. She looks pretty and does her part with conviction."

Majority Opinion (Result): All of the reviews indicate that Mukerji performed her role well. Furthermore, she won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance as well as received several nominations for Best Actress at various award ceremonies. --Bollywood Dreamz Talk 03:20, 1 Janaury 2008 (UTC)

Laaga Chunari Mein Daag

  • Rediff: "Rani is hardly allowed to flash that smile -- the one that usually works despite the film around it -- as she weeps copious tears and calls herself Natasha, after combating off sleazy call-centre bosses, the kind who keeps 30k in banknotes in his desk drawer."
  • BBC "Having cornered the market in destitute characters, Rani Mukerji demonstrates precisely why she is Bollywood's reigning queen with another poignant performance in Pradeep Sarkar's Laaga Chunari Mein Daag."
  • NDTV "Rani Mukherjee is luminous as the cheerful small town girl who becomes a hollow shell of herself."
  • Times of India "Actually, you don’t mind because the film solely belongs to Rani and Konkona, truly an empowered sibling show. Forgive the regressive tone all you feminists and modern males, watch the film merely for its performances."
  • Businessofcinema "Rani does justice to her role and never falters whether as a simpleton from Benaras or as a sophisticated girl. She slips into these characters with ease and panache."
  • TIMESNOW.tv "The cast is good, especially Rani Mukherji who has perfected the haunted sadness look."
  • Indian Express "Rani holds the film together, even if her part, both as the ingénue and the hooker, doesn’t have freshness."
  • IndiaFM "Rani excels yet again. It's a pleasure watching her in an author-backed role yet again."
  • Full Hyderabad "Mukherjee gets to bite her teeth into the lead role, and though she does not disappoint, she doesn’t rise above her usual weepy, serious self for the most part."
  • IBN Live "It's left to Rani Mukherjee eventually, to pump credibility into what is undoubtedly one of her worst written roles yet. And although Rani does perform competently, it's sadly not enough to save this tragic film from its doomed fate."

Majority Opinion (Result): All of the reviews indicate that Mukerji performed her role well despite criticizing the movie. Most of them indicate that her performance was good despite the flaws in the movie's script. --Bollywood Dreamz Talk 03:47, 1 Janaury 2008 (UTC)

  • (My take on the reviews): Some reviews praise her, some don't praise her, some are moderate, Rediff criticises. Yes, most of them say she did well. The result is: generally well-received. Shahid • Talk2me 10:28, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

  • Rediff "While Rani is laden with flaky dialogues that most actresses would balk at, the actress manages to provide a realistic character, as far as her words allow. Unforgivable scenes are suddenly salvaged by Ms Mukerji breaking into a teary grin, and for that we must thank her."
  • Same Rediff "Rani is competent but one hardly tends to sympathise with her character."
  • BBC "Rani Mukerjee once again takes the trophy as Bollywood's best actress. If she did well in the film, Black, here she goes one step further as her talent exudes infinitely."
  • IBN Live "Rani looks a million bucks and she dives under the skin of her character to make that part one that we will remember for a long time."
  • IndiaFM "Rani is remarkable yet again. In fact, if you consider BLACK to be her most memorable performance so far, then watch her in KABHI ALVIDA NAA KEHNA. This surpasses her work in BLACK or VEER-ZAARA and PAHELI. Her makeup as well as her overall appearance is tremendous. She's never looked as good before!"
  • Express India "As for Rani, there’s not much to look forward to. A cleanliness freak, Rani must have taken lessons from her role in Chalte Chalte. But after her breath-taking role in Black, Rani fails to add to add fervor to Maya."

Majority Opinion (Result): 5 out of the 6 reviews praise Mukerji's performance. Furthermore, she received several nominations for Best Actress at various award ceremonies, as well as earned the IIFA Best Actress Award for the third consecutive year. --Bollywood Dreamz Talk 18:46, 25 Janaury 2008 (UTC)

Veer-Zaara

  • IndiaFM "Rani Mukerji is a scene-stealer. The actress takes giant strides with this role, relying completely on her expressions to do her job."
  • The Hindu "...there are such good performances, especially from Preity and Rani."
  • BBC "As for the gritty, yet insecure lawyer Rani, she isn't far behind though. Of the two, (Preity & Rani) hers is the shorter role but far more challenging. She is a revelation in some of the confrontational scenes. Like Shah Rukh, she too is bound to win some accolades at the award ceremonies next year."
  • Rediff "...Rani Mukherjee walks away with the best lines and a performance full of grit."
  • The Tribune "Rani Mukherjee, who plays a Pakistani lawyer, forcefully asserts her skills."
  • Variety "and she's (Preity Zinta) balanced on the distaff side by a quietly dignified perf from Mukerji as the Pakistani lawyer, who also has something of her own to prove."

Majority Opinion (Result): All the reviews indicate that Mukerji has performed her role well. Furthermore, she received several nominations for Best Supporting Actress at various award ceremonies, as well as earned the IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance in the film. --Bollywood Dreamz Talk 21:09, 25 Janaury 2008 (UTC)

Ta Ra Rum Pum

(Positive)

  • Express India "Rani is Rani. Remarkable till the end. Although the 'cool college going girl' before marriage is not what Rani has done too often, the actor does carry it with strength and poise. But beyond the transformation, there is just one word to describe her – dignified!"
  • BBC "Rani Mukerji portrays Radhika's transformation from a music student to a mature and conscientious mother/wife with great proficiency. This actress is a natural."
  • IndiaFM "Rani enacts the role of the mother/wife proficiently."
  • Rediff "Rani Mukerji's Radhika is a confident lady. There is a certain polish in her taste and thoughts. Self-assurance comes naturally to the actress. And for this role, she makes the most of it. Also, there is just one word to describe Surily Goel's wardrobe for Rani: WOW!"
  • Hindustan Times "Rani Mukherji is lovely and delivers a near flawless performance."
  • Times of India "Yet, all this familiarity fails to breed contempt because there is Saif and there is Rani: two consummate actors who squeeze out the ordinariness from any role and make it extraordinary. As the young NRI couple who dare to dream the American dream, the two lend a spiritedness to their characters which somehow makes them the most lovable mom-dad/husband-wife duo in town."
  • Indya.com "Rani compliments him well and they both share a great chemistry. She is suitably restrained during the emotional scenes in the second half and thankfully not made to shed buckets of tears like her two previous films, (KANK and Baabul)."
  • Business of Cinema "Rani Mukerjee who has proved to be a storehouse of emotions, does well with her character. Her transformation from a sassy girl to a composed woman, allows her to perform and showcase an array of emotions."

(Negative)

  • Indiatimes "Rani Mukherjee does nothing different. She seems to have stepped straight out of ‘Baabul’ and ‘KANK’ with her rona dhona in the second half and looks really bad in the first with her hideous wig and outfits. She miserably fails to carry off the image of a trendy New Yorker. She should stick to her ‘Indian’ avatar in future."

(Review critcizing the character that the director penned for Mukerji. Note: They are NOT criticizing her)

  • IBN Live "Of the performances, neither Saif Ali Khan nor Rani is able to make much of an impression because their characters are so unidimensional and boring."

Majority Opinion (Result): There are 10 reviews of the film posted here. 8 of them praise Mukerji's performance whilst only one criticizes her. The last review criticizes the director for wasting her talent/the character that Mukerji played so they're not really criticizing her.--Bollywood Dreamz Talk 03:12, 26 Janaury 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bad sourcing

There are instances of extremely bad sourcing being employed in this article. To be fair, this is a characteristic of quite a few Bollywood actor bios on Wikipedia. I will correct this when I get a chance and begin serious editing when I get some time, probably next week or slightly afterwards. Ekantik talk 02:40, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

What do you mean by bad sourcing? Shahid • Talk2me 10:17, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Most of the sources look reliable. I can't see any references from blogs or anything. With some copy editing, minor tone addressing and minor improvements this should be up to GA, thanks to the dedication of Mr. Dreamz. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ Talk? 12:31, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Too much details

The stuff put back has too many details, this is an article on Rani Mukherjee and not "what roles has Rani done" so the character she plays etc etc is not required for all films, a few should suffice ,a critical review does not need a few lines on her as well as the charachter in every casea mention of the film + the critics comments should suffice. As of now there are too many comments on roles and movies and critics comments. Can we drop some of the insignificant ones ? If one wants to put the details there is always the films page to add on more details. Haphar (talk) 08:18, 20 February 2008 (UTC)