Rani Mukerji’s maternal grandmother, Arati Roy passes away at 92

Veteran actor Debashree Roy’s mother Arati Roy passed away on Tuesday evening at the age of 92. For the unversed,  Arati Roy is also Bollywood actress Rani Mukerji’s grandmother as Rani’s mother Krishna Mukherjee is Debashree’s sister. She was suffering from age-related ailments over the last one year or so. For the past few months, Arati Roy was staying with her elder daughter and breathed her last in presence of her three daughters, an emotional Debashree has revealed in a statement. Debashree has always been vocal about her mother’s contributions to her career and how she fulfilled her mother’s dream with her film debut. During an appearance on a TV show hosted by Debshankar Haldar, the actor revealed how her mother took her to shoots, helped her with dance costumes and more. “My mother is everything, “ she said on the show. 

Rani Mukerji on the other hand is one of B-town's most successful stars as she has established herself by starring in several commercially successful romantic films, including Chalte Chalte (2003), Hum Tum (2004), Veer-Zaara (2004), and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), and the crime comedy Bunty Aur Babli (2005). She also gained praise for playing an abused wife in the political thriller Yuva (2004) and a deaf and blind woman in the drama Black (2005). Mukerji's collaborations with Yash Raj Films from 2007 and 2010 produced several unsuccessful films and led critics to bemoan her choice of roles. This changed when she played a headstrong journalist in the thriller No One Killed Jessica (2011), and further success came for her starring roles in the thrillers Talaash (2012), Mardaani (2014) and its sequel Mardaani 2 (2019), and the comedy-drama Hichki (2018). The lattermost emerged as her highest-grossing release.