All you wanted to know about Rani

From being stolen at birth to being a trained Odissi dancer, After Hours reveals everything you wanted to know about the sexy actress

*She was stolen when she was four days old. The father, of the baby in the cot next to hers in the hospital, was so smitten by the brown-eyed wonder that he exchanged her with his daughter. But Rani's mother Krishna raised a hue and cry and she was eventually restored to the Mukherjis.

*Her father Ram Mukherji was the founder director of Filmalaya Studios and directed many films including 'Leader' and 'Hum Hindustani'. Her mother was a playback singer.

*Rani is a trained Odissi dancer.

*She studied at Maneckji Cooper High School in Juhu, and later enrolled in Mithibai College, Mumbai.

*She was in the 12th grade when Salim Akhtar signed her for 'Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat'.

*When it was released in 1996, her father was in hospital recuperating after a bypass surgery. He insisted on seeing the film the day he was discharged.

*Rani confesses being 'lazy'. Sleep is her power break.

*She votes her 'eyes' and 'smile' as her best features.

*Rani has a bad temper, which makes her 'scream and shout'.

*She relishes the Rohu fish prepared by her mother.

*Rani's a Sai Baba devotee and visits Shirdi at least once a year. She makes it a point to attend the 'snan' (bath ritual).

*Rani speak: I respect women who are professionals—pilots, police officers and even corporates. But I admire those women the most who commute long distances by train every day. They are early risers, they cook, walk up to the station, get pushed around in trains, complete their work at office, travel back, and cook again. They are the first to wake up and the last to retire.