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Happy Birthday Moushumi Chatterjee: Lesser Known facts about the Actress

By Benson | Updated: April 26, 2020 09:00 IST

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Bollywood veteran Moushumi Chatterjee made a mark in Hindi and Bengali cinema with her performance in the 60-70s.
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Moushumi was born in Kolkata and grew up there. Some of her best films include 'Angoor', 'Manzil' and 'Roti Kapad Aur Makaan'. She has worked with some of the biggest actors like Rajesh Khanna, Shashi Kapoor, Jeetendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Vinod Mehra and Amitabh Bachchan.
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She married producer Jayanta Mukherjee, son of music composer and singer Hemant Kumar, who is also an exponent of Rabindra Sangeet. They have two daughters, Payal and Megha. She acted in Hindi films after marriage. In 2019, she joined Bharatiya Janata Party.
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Moushumi Chatterjee was known to perform crying scenes with ease and for this she did not even need glycerin. In an interview to BBC, Moushumi had said that when I used to cry in a scene, I used to think that this is really happening to me and I used to cry.
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Moushumi's real name is Indira Chatterjee and she was one of the highest paid actress in Hindi Cinema during the peak of her career.
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