What Aditya Chopra told Vishal Jethwa before working with Rani Mukerji in Mardaani 2: ‘You’re working with a…’ | Bollywood News
5 min readMumbaiFeb 24, 2026 06:30 PM IST Years before he made heads turn and eyes moist with his moving, lived-in performance as Chandan Kumar in Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound last year, Vishal Jethwa had his breakthrough in movies with Gopi Puthran’s 2019 cop drama Mardaani 2. He played Sunny, a young, ferocious criminal who locked horns with Rani Mukerji’s top cop Shivani Shivaji Roy. In this edition of SCREEN Spotlight, Vishal recalls Rani’s husband and producer Aditya Chopra’s advice to him and the difference in acting approaches of Rani and her cousin Kajol, with whom Vishal starred in Revathy’s Salaam Venky (2020). Since you’ve worked with both, how similar and different are Kajol and Rani Mukerji as actors? The one thing that’s quite common between both Rani ma’am and Kajol ma’am is that they’re both switch on/switch off performers. Which is something I should learn because I take my character home. I even get a headache, but don’t give up. There’s a scene in Mardaani 2 when I insert something sharp in Rani ma’am’s leg. …
