Who Helped Rani Mukerji To Understand Hichki Character?
Actor Rani Mukerji had interactive sessions with author Brad Cohen, on whose autobiography her film "Hichki" is based, to learn about the Tourette syndrome.
Actor
Rani
Mukerji
had
interactive
sessions
with
author
Brad
Cohen,
on
whose
autobiography
her
film
"Hichki" is
based,
to
learn
about
the
Tourette
syndrome.
Directed
by
Siddharth
P
Malhotra,
"Hichki" features
Rani
as
an
inspiring
and
self-motivated
school
teacher
named
Naina
Mathur
who
suffers
from
Tourrete
syndrome.
The
film
is
based
Cohen's
autobiography
"Front
of
the
Class
:
How
Tourette
Syndrome
Made
Me
the
Teacher
I
Never
Had".
Rani's
story
in
the
film
mirrors
the
life
of
Cohen,
a
respected
and
popular
motivational
speaker
and
teacher
from
the
United
States.
Malhotra
said
that
he
had
been
in
constant
touch
with
the
author
regarding
the
movie
for
five
years
and
narrated
the
project
to
Rani
in
2016.
"...
I've
been
tic-ing
throughout
those
5
years
in
his
voice
and
giving
those
narrations.
So
when
I
narrated
the
script
to
her
I
narrated
it
with
the
tics..
Even
to
Adi
and
Maneesh
I
narrated
it
with
the
tics.
So
we
knew
that's
a
tough
one
to
come
around.
So
made
her
meet
some
people
with
Tourettes,"
he
said.
He
said
Rani
had
few
interaction
with
people
who
suffered
from
the
syndrome
and
even
had
interactions
with
Cohen
via
Skype
to
understand
the
character
better."Brad
almost
did
one
week
to
two
weeks
of
back
and
forth
communications
with
Rani
and
almost
for
an
hour
each
session...
Showed
her
how
he
gets
excited
to
the
fact
that
he
tics
it
every
2
or
3
seconds
and
the
fact
that
he
tries
to
calm
himself
down."
So
after
understanding
what
Brad
could
do
she
internalized
Brad
within
her
system.
And
that's
when
she
came
up
with
her
own
tics
and
that
is
how
she
became
Brad.
That's
when
she
came
back,
she
called
me
and
said
this
is
what
I'm
planning
to
do.
We
improvised
a
bit,
read
a
few
lines,
a
few
scenes
with
the
tics,"
Malhotra
said.
Cohen
will
also
be
promoting
the
film
from
the
US."Brad
will
be
promoting
'Hichki' from
US.
He
has
been
excited
about
the
film
being
made
in
Hindi
and
his
best
wishes
are
with
Rani
and
the
entire
team.
Brad
loves
the
trailer
of
'Hichki'
and
wants
to
lend
his
support
to
spread
awareness
around
Tourette
Syndrome
in
India
and
the
world
over.
He
will
be
promoting
the
movie
in
every
capacity
possible,"
a
source
from
the
production
house
said.