Actress Rani Mukerji is lending a hand to her aunt, National award winning actor Debasree Roy to garner support for abandoned animals, particularly stray dogs.
Rani, who’s always been a pet lover, has decided to turn an animal activist for her aunt.
The actress, sources say, has also made a sizeable donation towards building an animal shelter for stray dogs in Kolkata, where the NGO (for stray animals) run by her aunt is based.
The actress has promised to be more active about the cause of stray dogs, and also help her aunt to set up a branch of her NGO in Mumbai as well.
Rani says that she is particularly pained when she’s ridiculed for tending to dogs on the road. “My aunt (Debasree Roy) used to get ridiculed for loving dogs. I do support her cause,” says Rani.
It was Debasree Roy who had propelled the actor towards a film career, and goaded her to sign a Bengali film with a local hero.
The film proved to be her vehicle to Bollywood, where she landed her first Hindi film, Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat (1997) five years later.
“You all should support her in her endeavour,” advocates Rani.
It is said that the actress has taken a personal interest in her aunt’s cause, and supervised the website that was recently inaugurated.
“Rani has never really taken up a cause before. But as a child she used to often get pulled up by her mom for her habit of feeding stray dogs. She still does that even now. In the days to come, you’ll see Rani taking up the cause in a bigger way, and may even start an NGO in Mumbai as promised to her aunt.Right now, she’s just happy to be able to do her bit in drawing attention to the cause (of abandoned animals),” says a source close to the actor.
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