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“Rani” is a Bengali word which means queen. In reality, Rani Mukherjee is now the Queen of Bollywood.Till 2006, Rani Mukherjee’s movies did business of more than Rs. 5 billion

Rani Mukherjee and her cousin, Kajol are the two shortest actresses in the present day Bollywood. Here is a list of heights of some of the top actresses of Bollywood I have collected from Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB).

Rani Mukherjee: 5' 3" (1.60 M)

Kajol: 5' 2" (1.57 m)

Aishwarya Rai:  5' 7" (1.70 m

Karisma Kapoor: 5' 4" (1.63 m)

Madhuri Dixit: 5' 4" (1.63 m)

Kareena Kapoor: 5' 5" (1.65 m)

Sushmita Sen: 5' 10½" (1.79 m)

Mallika Sherawat: 5' 6½" (1.69 m)

Priyanka Chopra: 5' 10" (1.78 m)

Lara Dutta: 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Bipasha Basu: 5' 8½" (1.74 m)

The funny thing about Rani and her cousin Kajol is that the year 1998 was a lucky year for both of them. In 1998, Kajol worked in five films and four of them was commercially successful; especially Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. Rani also got her big break in 1998 through Ghulam and for her performance in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Rani Mukerji won the Film Fare Best Supporting Actress award. In Ghulam, Rani Mukherjee’s voice was dubbed and it was the first and last time. Later, her husky voice becomes one of her trademarks.

Rani Mukarji can be referred as the last refuge of Bollywood. For many of her successful movies, she was not the first choice of the producer or director.