Rani Mukerji has walked out of director Deepa Mehta’s forthcoming film, an adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s bestseller, “Midnight’s Children”, scheduled for release in September 2010. The buzz is that Rani probably walked out of the film because she was asked to play mother to a 14 year old, and that she had reservations about the same as “she herself is just 30” (!!). Ask Deepa and she denies this flat. Initially, Rani was quite excited about working with Mehta, as she would have worked with a female director for the first time in her 13 year career. Rani had even met Rushdie and Mehta in Toronto for the same. Deepa, too, was excited to work with Rani but denies the fact that the actress walked out of her film because she had to play mother to a 14 year old. “Yes a section of the film did require her to play mother, but there is no 14 year old kid in my film”, says Deepa. Further, Deepa said, “Rani had some personal reasons for not doing the film, which I can’t talk about. Some things are confidential between a director and an actor. I respect Rani’s decision of not working in the film for whatever reasons.” This is a little surprising to us because the same Rani had no issues about playing mother to not one but two kids in Yashraj’s Ta Ra Rum Pum……but guess it’s all about “Aadi’s” aagya now!