Moushumi Chatterjee Movies and Career Information

Moushumi Chatterjee (26 April 1948; Bengali: মৌসুমি চ্যাটার্জী; Mausumi Cyāţārjī) is a Bollywood actress, who has also acted in Bengali cinema. She worked with actors like Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Jeetendra and Vinod Mehra. Chatterjee was born in Calcutta. Her father Prantosh Chattopadhyaya was in the Army. She had a sister and a brother. Her grandfather was a judge. She is married to Jayant Mukherjee (son of Hemant Kumar). They have two daughters, Payal and Meghna. She started to act in Bollywood movies after her marriage, which was quite unusual for women during that time. Moushumi Chatterjee was never considered to have conventional beauty, yet she was considered one of the most beautiful faces to hit the Hindi screen in the 1970s. She is an actress originally from Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West Bengal. She made her film debut in the Bengali hit, "Balika Badhu" (1969) directed by Tarun Majumdar. Her debut as heroine in the Hindi film "Anuraag" (1973) came courtesy of another famous Bengali director Shakti Samanta. She played a blind girl who falls in love, and her performance earned her a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress. The film, itself, won the Filmfare Award as