Rani Mukerji says she was ‘petrified’ to wear Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’s short dress: ‘I was only 17, never worn…’

At the event, Kajol asked Rani how did she dance in the “Koi Mil Gaya” song wearing the dress. “When I saw her in that, I thought, ‘It doesn’t look like she can move anything, how is she going to do that!’ But she was brilliant, flawless and so very graceful,” Kajol said.

To which Rani replied, “The honest answer is I don’t know it myself. I just went with the flow. I was only 17 years old and till such time, I hadn’t worn such a short skirt ever in my life. So when Karan and Manish (Malhotra) presented the outfit to me it was a gown, which kept getting shorter and shorter till I reached the set. When the outfit was taken to the cameramen, he looked at it and said, ‘Oh is this for baby Sana” and they were like, ‘No it is actually for Rani’ so he got a fright!”

The actor, however, credited the entire team for making her feel comfortable in the dress, which had her “petrified”. “I had Shah Rukh, Kajol di, Karan and Farah, who was choreographing the song. There was a lot of support I got from the team, especially from Karan, he made me feel very confident. I was petrified walking on top of that platform because all the boys and girls were below, looking up, so that was quite a nightmare for me. When I saw myself on screen, I was also shocked.”

On the work front, Rani recently starred in the drama Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway. Directed by Ashima Chibber, the film chronicled the story of an Indian woman who fights with the government of Norway for the custody of her children.