Moushumi Chatterjee

Moushumi Chatterjee (26 April 1948; Bengali: মৌসুমি চ্যাটার্জী; Moushumi Chāţārjī) is a Bollywood actress, who has also acted in Bengali cinema. Her on-screen pairings with actors like Rajesh Khanna, Shashi Kapoor, Jeetendra, Sanjeev Kumar and Vinod Mehra were popular. She was the third highest paid Hindi actress in 1973-1978.

Personal life and education

Moushumi Chatterjee was born in Calcutta. Her father Prantosh Chattopadhyaya was in the Army and her grandfather was a judge. She had a sister and a brother.

She is married to Jayant Mukherjee (son of Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay). They have two daughters, Payal and Megha. She started to act in Bollywood movies after her marriage, which was quite unusual for women during that time.

Career

Career as lead heroine (1967–1984)

Chatterjee made her film debut in the Bengali hit Balika Badhu (1967) directed by Tarun Majumdar at the age of 15. In an interview Moushumi Chatterjee quoted, "After Balika Badhu, I was flooded with Bengali movies but I wished to complete my studies. However, movies were in my fate hence when I was studying in class X, a close aunt of mine was on her death bed and her last wish was to see me married. Hence, to satisfy her wish I got married."

Moushumi

Arifa Parvin Moushumi (known by Moushumi, born November 3) is a Bangladeshii film actress and director, who got the National Film Award for Meghla Akash (2002). She has acted in over 150 films and made her directorial debut with Kokhono Megh Kokhono Brishti (2003).

Career

Moushumi began working as an actress and singer from an early age. She won the Anonda Bichittra Photo Beauty Contest, which led to appearances in television commercials in the 1990s. She first appeared in the movie Keyamat Thake Keyamat in Bangladesh.

Personal life

In 1996, she took a break from acting and announced her engagement to actor Omar Sunny. After six months, she returned to acting. The couple has two children.

In September 2013, Moushimi was named a UNICEF goodwill ambassador.

Moushumi runs a production house, Kopotakhsma Cholochitra. She is the associated with Projapoti Cholochitra and she looks after her own foundation, the "Moushumi Welfare Foundation".

Filmography

Actress

Director