Off-screen work[edit]

Stage shows and other appearances[edit]

Mukerji has participated in several concert tours and televised award ceremonies. Her first concert tour, "Magnificent Five", was in 1999 in which she
performed with actors Aamir Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Akshaye Khanna and Twinkle Khanna.[193] The "Temptations 2004" concert had Mukerji perform
alongside Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal and Priyanka Chopra in 19 stage shows worldwide.[194] The following year, she
participated in the "Temptations 2005" concert in New Delhi with Shah Rukh Khan, Fardeen Khan, Ameesha Patel and Malaika Arora Khan; the show
was organised to help raise funds for the National Centre For Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP).[195]

Mukerji at an event in 2015

In 2010, Mukerji performed at a concert in the Army Stadium of Dhaka, Bangladesh with several Bollywood actors including Shah Rukh Khan, Rampal
and Ishaa Koppikar.[196] For the "Temptations Reloaded" concert of 2012 in Jakarta, Mukerji performed alongside Shah Rukh Khan, Zinta and Bipasha
Basu, for the 2013 concert of the same name in Auckland, she performed with Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit and Jacqueline Fernandez, and in 2014
she performed in Malaysia with Shah Rukh Khan, Dixit, Yo Yo Honey Singh and Arijit Singh.[197][198][199]

Mukerji was all set to make her appearance at Cannes Film Festival, 2011 with Sabyasachi Mukherjee and Karan Johar, but later opted out due to her
father's ill health.[200][201] She has also be

2003
The year 2003 marked the beginning of the most successful period in Mukerji's career.[27] She replaced Aishwarya Rai to play the lead opposite Shah
Rukh Khan in Aziz Mirza's romance Chalte Chalte.[60] Media reUQG Vuk2veivlports suggested that Rai was replaced after feuding with her then
boyfriend Salman Khan on the film's sets, but Shah Rukh Khan insisted that Mukerji had been the original choice for the role.[60][61] Mukerji believed that
the theme of Chalte Chalte, which dealt with misunderstandings between a married couple, was similar to that of Saathiya, and she tried to lend variety
to the role by putting "them against a different background".[62] She has said that working with Shah Rukh Khan was a learning experience for her, and
he would often scold her if she performed inadequately.[62] A commercial success, Box Office India credited it as a career comeback for Mukerji,[27] and
she was rewarded with a second Best Actress nomination at Filmfare.[41][63] None of her other releases of the year—Chori Chori, Calcutta Mail, and LOC:
Kargil—made a mark.[63][64]

At the 50th Filmfare Awards, Mukerji won both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards, becoming the only actress to win both awards in
the same year.[65][66] The Best Supporting Actress win was for Mani Ratnam's Yuva (2004), a composite film with an ensemble cast, about three
youngsters from different strata of society whose lives intersect by a car accident; Mukerji was cast as Shashi Biswas, a poor Bengali housewife who is
abused by her husband, a local goon (Abhishek Bachchan). She based her role on her house helps who were abused by their husbands, and observed
their body language and speaking style.[4] Taran Adarsh wrote, "Amongst the leading ladies, it is Rani Mukerji who is the best of the lot. The role
demanded an actress of substance and Rani more than lives up to the expectations."[67] She won the Best Actress award for her starring role as Rhea
Prakash in Kunal Kohli's Hum Tum (2004), a romantic comedy about two headstrong individuals who meet at different stages of their lives.[68][69] The film
pitted her opposite Saif Ali Khan and proved one of the biggest commercial successes of the year.[70] The Hindu found Mukerji's portrayal of Rhea to be
"self assuredly competent" and Tanmaya Kumar Nanda of Rediff.com wrote, "Rani is her usual collected self, changing into the many hues of her
character with the ease of a chameleon".[71][72]

This success continued when Yash Chopra cast her in his period romantic drama Veer-Zaara (2004). Set against the background of India–Pakistan
relations, it is about the titular star-crossed lovers (Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta).[73] In a part originally written for a man, Mukerji played a Pakistani
lawyer who tries to help the couple.[74] With a worldwide gross of ₹940 million (US$12 million),[28] Veer-Zaara emerged as the highest-grossing Hindi film
of the year, and it was later screened at the Berlin International Film Festival.[75][76] Derek Elley of Variety took note of the "quietly dignified perf from
Mukerji", and the BBC opined that she "deserves praise for her acting. To act through your eyes and not using dialogue is an art. Rani for one, has
perfected this."[77][78] She won the IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received a nomination in the same category at Filmfare.[41]
 Mukerji at the Apsara Awards ceremony, where she was
awarded Best Actress for her performance in Black (2005)
In 2005, Outlook magazine published that Mukerji had established herself as the most successful actress of contemporary Hindi cinema.[1] Her first film
role that year was opposite Amitabh Bachchan in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black, a drama about an alcoholic man who dedicates his life to teach a
blind and deaf girl how to communicate.[79] Bhansali wrote the part of the blind-deaf girl specifically for Mukerji, who was initially hesitant to take on the
role due to its "challenging" subject matter.[80] Once Bhansali enforced his faith in her, she agreed and began studying sign language with professionals
at the Helen Keller Institute in Mumbai.[81] Black won several awards including two National Film Awards and 11 Filmfare Awards,[82][83] and Richard
Corliss of Time featured it as the fifth best film of the year.[84] Empire magazine called Mukerji's performance "astonishing",[85] and Filmfare included her
work in their listing of Indian cinema's "80 Most Iconic performances" and wrote, "Rani has left an indelible mark with this role that usually comes once
in a lifetime for most".[86] She became the only actress to win both the Best Actress and Best Actress – Critics trophies at the Filmfare Awards
ceremony.[41][66]

Mukerji received another Best Actress nomination that year at Filmfare for her work opposite Abhishek Bachchan in Bunty Aur Babli, which marked her
fifth collaboration with Yash Raj Films.[87] She played the title character of Babli, a con woman.[88] The film was the second highest-grossing Hindi film of
2005.[89] Namrata Joshi of Outlook wrote that she "plays to the gallery with ease".[90] Mukerji followed it with Amol Palekar's fantasy film Paheli, reuniting
her with Shah Rukh Khan. The film was a box office flop in India but was given a strong international release;[89] it was screened at the Sundance Film
Festival and was India's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 79th Academy Awards.[91][92] Raja Sen of Rediff.com was impressed by
the film as well as Mukerji's performance which he called "another perfectly played part".[93] Mukerji's final release of the year was the period film Mangal
Pandey: The Rising, about the titular soldier.[94] Director Ketan Mehta initially approached her for a cameo appearance, which was developed into a
larger part during filming.[95] Her role was that of Heera, a prostitute who becomes the love interest of Pandey (Aamir Khan).[96] Derek Elley mentioned
that despite a small role, Mukerji made "the most of her feisty na