[7] Her original name was Jhumjhum Banerjee,[8][9] and was changed to Rachana by Sukhen Das, the director of her debut film Daan Pratidaan (1993).
[6] Banerjee won the Miss Kolkata contest in 1991 when she was still in her second year of graduation course from South City College.
Sukhen Das chose Banerjee for the female lead in his directorial venture Dan Pratidan (1993).
1 at Tollygunge, and she fainted following a panic attack and was rushed to a city hospital (Aurobindo Seva Sadan).
[14] Banerjee contested as All India Trinamool Congress candidate from the Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency seat against Bharatiya Janata Party's sitting M.P Locket Chatterjee in the 2024 Indian general election and won by a margin of 76,853 votes.