Rani Mukerji won hearts everywhere with her
outstanding performance in Yash Raj Films’ superhit film Hichki. As Naina
Mathur, a passionate teacher who deals with Tourette Syndrome, Rani delivered a
powerful performance, also communicating a key message about equal treatment
for people with physical challenges in India.
Her character inspires positive
change in school students from economically backward origins, a story that
resonated globally for Hichki to become a massive hit and now Indian Film
Festival of Melbourne has awarded Rani with the Best Actress Award for the
year.
Hugely popular with sizeable Indian diaspora
living in Melbourne, Rani expressed her gratitude saying, “Indian Film Festival
of Melbourne has always welcomed the best of Indian cinema and celebrated our
form of storytelling. I feel very proud and thankful that Hichki has been
accepted and loved by audiences here.
It’s a story with universal resonance,
and it’s spirit of positivity has won over Indians and locals here. I am also
grateful for winning the Best Actress Award and sincerely thank everyone for
applauding my performance. I have found this film festival a vibrant and
progressive setting for cinema and its impact beyond languages and cultures. I
thoroughly enjoyed being in Melbourne and hope to travel with my films here in
the near future.”
The theme of the IFFM 2018
festival was ‘Inclusion’. Rani Mukerji is the only mainstream actress who has
successfully and sensitively embraced such subjects through her exceptional
films Black and Hichki so Rani was also chosen unanimously to win the ‘Excellence
in Cinema’ award at the ceremony.
IFFM had an eminent panel of jury (Andrew
Anastasios, Jill Bilcock, Geoffrey Wright, Nikkhil Advani, Rajeev Masand, Simi
Garewal, Sue Maslin) who unanimously decided upon Rani Mukerji’s win as the
Best Actress.
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