Birthday Wishes to Moushumi Chatterjee, one of the biggest stars of her time

Moushumi Chatterjee (born 26 April 1948) is an Indian actress who is recognized for her work in Hindi as well as Bengali cinema. Her on-screen pairings with actors such as Rajesh Khanna, Shashi Kapoor, Jeetendra, Sanjeev Kumar and Vinod Mehra were popular.

Moushumi Chatterjee was considered one of the most beautiful faces to hit the Hindi screen in the 1970s. She made her film debut in the Bengali hit, Balika Badhu (1967) directed by Tarun Majumdar when she was in her early teens. Her debut as heroine in the Hindi film Anuraag (1972) 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 Best Picture. That led to another huge hit film, where she played a rape survivor in Manoj Kumar 's Roti Kapada Aur Makaan (1974). Her rape sequence in the film is still considered to be one of the most disturbing scenes in Hindi cinema. Her performance earned her a Filmfare Nomination as Best Supporting Actress. That led to more starring roles opposite superstar Amitabh Bachchan in the thriller Benaam (1974) and Basu Chatterjee's film Manzil (1979). She played heroine opposite all the other top leading men, such as Sanjeev Kumar, Jeetendra, Rajesh Khanna, and Shashi Kapoor. She did more Hindi and Bengali hit films, and by the 1980s, she made the transition to character roles of mother and bhabhi (sister-in-law).
In middle age, Moushumi has accepted new challenges as playing a dual role in Tanuja Chandra's Zindaggi Rocks (2006) and crossed over to Canada to act in Bollywood/Hollywood (2002) for which she received a Genie Best Supporting Actress nomination. She also has entered politics in 2004, even though she has had no experience, but she tried to compensate with enthusiasm and hard work.
While she got along with her leading men, such as Vinod Mehra, Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Manoj Kumar, and Rishi Kapoor, her favorite co-star is Sanjeev Kumar, who played her boyfriend, father, and brother-in-law in different films.
Her personal favorite songs from her films are: "Jaa re bachpan tu jaa" from Kuchhe Dhaage (1973); "Woh Kya Hai" and "Sun ri Pawan" from Anuraag (1972); "Rim jhim gire saawan" from Manzil (1979). However, her most favorite song is "Chhod de saari duniya" from Saraswatichandra (1968), which she did not act in but starred Nutan, who she had worked with in Anuraag (1972).

She came from a conservative family, where her grandfather was a judge, and her father was in the army.She claims that she was young, she was a tomboy who had more boys than girls for friends.She said that she was married when she was in high school, after the legendary composer, Hemanta Mukherjee, who had composed her first few Bengali films, approached her father and asked whether his son Jayanta Mukherjee' can marry her, and her father agreed.
Awards
Won, BFJA Award for Best Actress for Balika Vadhu (1968)
Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Actress for Anurag (1972)
Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for Roti Kapda Aur Makaan (1974)
Nominated, Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for Bollywood/Hollywood (2002)
Won, Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Bengali for Goynar Baksho (2014)
Won, Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award at the 61st Britannia Filmfare Awards (2015)

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