Actor Rani Mukerji's latest film 'Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway', which is based on a true story, went on to receive love and accolades from all walks of life. However, a Norwegian ambassador is not happy. Hans Jacob Frydenlund, a Norwegian Ambassador to India, claimed that the film is a ‘fictional representation’ of a true case, with factual inaccuracies.
Now, the actor has responded in an interview with HT and tells that the motive behind the film is not to villainize any particular country.
“Everybody is entitled to have their own opinion. This film was not really made to offend anybody. It was a story of a mother that needed to be told to and seen by a lot of people. People need to be aware of stories like this that are happening in the world. It is a true story, and the intention of the film was very different from what was being projected in the opinion that was given. It was about a mother’s journey," Mukerji tells HT.
Ashima Chibber’s film is based on Sagarika Chakraborty’s story, whose kids were taken away from her by the Norway’s Child Welfare Services citing improper parenting, chronicling how she stood up against the government to get her kids back.
Rani Mukerji further stated that the film was not about villainising any country or any particular place. “The film clearly shows how it’s never the main people who are doing it, but people who are taking advantage of a system. But everybody is touchy about their own country and will try to defend. But more than that, it’s about watching the film and the story that actually happened,” she notes.
She also says that the film is not fiction. “For somebody like me, who’s s an Indian citizen, what would I understand with my Indian government being involved with this? It can’t be a fictional story because my government helped getting the children united with the mother. So, by one person saying something, it’s not really going to affect the larger picture of the film that we wanted to make and the story that we wanted to put out.”
