Modelling career (1991–1992) Banerjee won the Miss
Kolkata contest in 1991 when she was still in her second year of graduation course from South City College. She entered several beauty pageants before starting her acting career and was often declared 'Miss Beautiful Smile'. In 1992 she missed out of the Miss India contest grand finale where
Madhu Sapre was crowned with the title.
Acting career (1993–2017) Sukhen Das chose Banerjee for the female lead in his directorial venture
Dan Pratidan (1993). He changed her name to Rachana (which Das found in 'Rabindra Rachanabali'). Rachana has done around 45 Oriya movies to date. She appeared alongside Amitabh Bachchan in the film
Sooryavansham, one of the cult movies of its era.
Hosting Didi No. 1 Apart from acting, Banerjee is also hosting the Bengali
non-fiction TV show,
Didi No. 1, which is aired on
Zee Bangla on weekdays. On 5 April 2013 a fire broke out in the
studio of
Didi No. 1 at
Tollygunge, and she
fainted following a
panic attack and was rushed to a city
hospital (Aurobindo Seva Sadan). ==Personal life==