Published 17:15 IST, March 17th 2023

Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway: Meet the woman who inspired Rani Mukerji's role

Rani Mukerji's Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway is based on the life of Sagarika Chatterjee who fought for her rights in foreign land.

Reported by: Karuna Tyagi
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Rani Mukerji stars in Mrs Chatterjee vs rway. movie follows titular character as she fights against system in foreign land for custody of her children. movie was released on March 17 and as per Rani, it is a tribute to women and mors. Since film is based on true events, re is a lot of curiosity around real-life character who has inspired storyline.  

About Sagarika Bhattacharya and her family   

Sagarika Bhattacharya and her husband Anurup Bhattacharya got married in 2007. After ir wedding, y moved to rway. When Sagarika was expecting her first child, she returned to Kolkata and delivered her son Abhigyan, who started showing symptoms similar to autism patients. mor and son returned to rway in 2009. 

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In 2010, Sagarika gave birth to her second child, a daughter and named her Aishwarya. At that time, Abhigyan had started going to kindergarten.

In 2011, both Sagarika and Anurup were declared unfit for parenting by rwegian Child Welfare Services. authorities took both ir kids and placed m into foster care till y turned 18. Sagarika was also labelled an unfit mor. She used to feed her kids with hands, which was considered 'force feeding' in rway. She used to make her children sleep in same bed which was frowned upon in country.

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This led to a lot of struggles, and after a long battle and help from Indian government, Sagarika was able to win back custody of her children. 

Sagarika Bhattacharya on Rani Mukerji playing her

life of Sagarika Bhattacharya is w subject of film and Rani Mukerji is portraying character. During one of promotional events of film, Sagarika Bhattacharya watched trailer of film and was moved to tears. She said, "I want to thank Rani Mukerji for channeling grief and struggles that I went through to win back my children. She is a mor herself and I thank her for bringing a mor’s painful journey on screen with so much dignity that I broke down while seeing her in trailer.”

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"It’s hard to put into words how it feels seeing my story being told. Watching trailer, I felt like I was reliving my battle," she concluded. 

16:09 IST, March 17th 2023