Rani Mukerji says photographers get ‘scared’ when she tells them to not click her daughter’s pictures, explains how Aditya Chopra avoids paparazzi

Rani Mukerji explained why she and husband Aditya Chopra have a strict 'no photographs' policy for their seven-year-old daughter.

By: Entertainment Desk

New Delhi | Updated: November 30, 2023 09:49 AM IST

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Rani Mukerji explained why she and Aditya Chopra decided to not allow Adira to get photographed. (Photo: Varinder Chawla)

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Rani Mukerji and Aditya Chopra have maintained a strict ‘no photographs’ policy for their seven-year-old daughter, Adira Chopra. So much so that no one has even seen any paparazzi shots of Adira, and on the latest episode of Koffee with Karan, Rani explained how she managed this in a world where everyone has a phone in their hands and clicking celebrity kids is not really a difficult task.

Rani shared that immediately after Adira was born, she would request photographers to not click her photos, and they would oblige. “I told them ‘Please, baby ka photo mat lijiye (don’t take the baby’s photo) and from that day, they respected that. To this day, they wait until Adira goes into the airport and then they take my pictures,” she said. Rani also joked that when she first told the photographers to not take Adira’s photos, they got “scared.” “They look at my eyes and they get scared,” she said with a laugh.

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The actor said that it was essential for her and Aditya Chopra to raise their daughter in an environment where she does not feel privileged. “(It was) our decision together that we don’t want Adira to be photographed. We have a different idea of how we want to raise Adira so that she doesn’t feel privileged or she does not feel special in school. She feels like any other kid and doesn’t get extra attention,” she said. Aditya Chopra heads one of the biggest studios in India, Yash Raj Films.

Karan also wondered how Aditya Chopra manages to evade the paparazzi at the airport, especially after he was seen in Netflix’s The Romantics. Before the show, Aditya was known as the man who never gets photographed. “He is really simple when he moves around,” she said and explained that they have a strategy when they exit the airport as a family. “I am actually the honeybee so I have to make way for my child and my husband,” Rani said.

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