Rani Mukerji made a rare appearance at the Mumbai airport on Friday, and she found herself fighting off the paparazzi. The protective mom made waves online when videos showed her rather stern reaction to the shutterbugs, while trying to protect her daughter’s privacy.A video that has surfaced online shows the actor making her way towards her car after arriving at the airport. As she prepared to leave, Rani noticed photographers taking pictures and immediately stepped out to ensure that photos of her daughter Adira had not been captured on camera.
Rani Mukerji gets into protective mom mode
The actor was seen walking up to one of the photographers and asking to check his camera, saying, “Bache nahi aa gaye na?” (The child hasn’t come into the pictures, right?).The photographer was then seen showing Rani the last image on his camera, reassuring her that Adira had not been photographed. The actor was then seen proceeding to her car and zooming off.
Rani on guarding Adira’s privacy
Rani Mukerji and her filmmaker husband, Aditya Chopra have consistently kept their daughter away from the public eye since her birth, rarely making public appearances with her or allowing photographs to be published.Speaking about the decision during her appearance on Koffee with Karan Season 8, Rani revealed that it was a conscious parenting choice made jointly by the couple.”Right from the time Adira was born, I have to thank all the paparazzi and all the media people; they really love me because they kind of respected that. They know how Adi (Aditya Chopra) is. It was our decision together that we didn’t want Adira to be photographed because we have a different idea of how we want to raise Adira, so that she doesn’t feel privileged or she doesn’t feel very special at school, and she feels like any other kid. And she doesn’t get any extra attention. That was something Adi and I wanted for her. That would only happen if she would not be photographed,” she had said on the show.