{"id":54401,"date":"2025-10-01T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/54401\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:30:09","slug":"rani-mukerji-weighs-in-on-flexible-work-hours-amid-deepika-padukones-8hr-shift-demand-when-adira-was-14-month-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/54401\/","title":{"rendered":"Rani Mukerji weighs in on flexible work hours amid Deepika Padukone’s 8hr-shift demand: ‘When Adira was 14 month old…’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the film industry continues to discuss Deepika Padukone<\/a>\u2019s reported request for an eight-hour workday, a demand said to have led to her exit from Spirit, directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga and starring Prabhas, actor Rani Mukerji<\/a> has weighed in with her perspective, drawing from her own experience of balancing career and motherhood.<\/p>\n

\"Rani Rani Mukerji noted that while flexibility in working hours is essential, the pressure on women remains significantly different from their male counterparts. Rani recalled her schedule when Adira was a toddler<\/p>\n

Speaking to ANI, Rani recalled the filming of her 2018 movie Hichki, which took place when her daughter Adira was just 14 months old.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I did Hichki, Adira was 14 months old, and I was still breastfeeding her. I had to pump the milk and leave early in the morning to shoot at a college in town. From my home in Juhu to the shoot location, it would take almost two hours due to traffic. So I\u2019d leave by 6:30 a.m. after expressing milk. My first shot was at 8 a.m., and I\u2019d wrap up by 12:30 or 1 p.m. My team and director were very organised. I\u2019d reach home by 3 p.m., before the traffic worsened. That\u2019s how I completed the film.\u201d<\/p>\n

She stressed that conversations around flexible working hours in cinema aren’t new but are gaining visibility today because they’re being publicly acknowledged. Rani also highlighted the double standards faced by women in the industry, pointing out that female actors often have to pause or adapt their careers after motherhood, while their male counterparts rarely face the same expectations.<\/p>\n

Rani talks about juggling work with motherhood<\/p>\n

\u201cThese things have always existed. It\u2019s just that now people are openly talking about it. In any profession, if the producer agrees to shorter hours, you go ahead with the project. If not, you opt out. It\u2019s a mutual choice; nothing is forced. Men don\u2019t have to go through a physical transformation. Women, on the other hand, go through both physical and emotional changes after becoming mothers. But I\u2019m very happy being a woman,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Rani Mukerji recently earned the Best Actress award at the 71st National Film Awards for her performance in Mrs Chatterjee vs. Norway. The film, based on the real-life story of Sagarika Chakraborty, follows a mother\u2019s emotional and legal battle to reclaim her children from the Norwegian foster care system.<\/p>\n

Deepika, on the other hand, is busy shooting Shah Rukh Khan’s King which also stars Suhana Khan, Abhishek Bachchan and Arshad Warsi. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the film industry continues to discuss Deepika Padukone\u2019s reported request for an eight-hour workday, a demand said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,504,156,46104,2891,111,139,69,32282,46103],"class_list":{"0":"post-54401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-deepika-padukone","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hichki","12":"tag-motherhood","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-rani-mukerji","17":"tag-workday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}