Deepika Padukone’s reported demand for an eight-hour workday and her subsequent exit from controversial filmmaker Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Prabhas-starrer, Spirit , due to disagreement over this, has put the spotlight on the topic of fixed working hours in cinema. While one section of industry professionals and the general audience backed her demand , she also faced considerable backlash from another quarter. Now, National Award-winning actor Rani Mukerji has shared her perspective on the matter, revealing how she balanced work and motherhood.

“When I did Hichki (2018), Adira (Rani and her husband Aditya Chopra’s daughter) was 14 months old, and I was still breastfeeding her, so I had to pump the milk and go in the morning, and I was shooting in a college in town. From my hou

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