- Source: Kamu Mukherjee
Kamu Mukherjee (14 June 1931 – 6 December 2003) was a Bengali actor, best known for his role as Mandar Bose in Sonar Kella and Harun-al-Rashid in Sandip Ray's first film Phatik Chand.
Career
Mukherjee's first film appearance was in the 1959 film Sonar Harin with Uttam Kumar, Chhabi Biswas and Bhanu Bandopadhyay. He had gone to Satyajit Ray's house and approached Ray to act in his films and, thereafter, he worked with Ray in nine films. Mukherjee is known for his performances in different types of roles, both serious and comic, in Ray's films. His acting in the knife throwing scene in the film Joi Baba Felunath is one of the more remembered scenes from the filmmaker's oeuvre. He also starred in the films of Goutam Ghosh, Buddhadev Dashgupta and Arabinda Mukhopadhyay. Mukherjee died at the age of 72 on 6 December 2003 from rheumatoid arthritis in his home in Kolkata.
Selected filmography
Sonar Harin (1959) as Abdulla
Charulata (1964) as cameo (uncredited)
Nayak (1966) as Pritish
Kokhono Megh (1968) as Sotu Basak
Kamallata (1969)
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969) as cameo (uncredited)
Nishachar
Mouchak (1974)
Sonar Kella (1974) as Mandar Bose
Sawamsiddha
Hangsaraj (1976)
Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977)
Joi Baba Felunath (1979) as Arjun
Paka Dekha (1980) as a police constable
Heerak Rajar Deshe (1980) as sentry in the treasury
Phatik Chand (film) (1983) as Harun
Paar (film) (1984) as the sardar of a jute mill
Abir
Phera (1988) as Mantu Dutta
Shakha Proshakha (1990) as a domestic help at the Majumder house
Goopy Bagha Phire Elo (1992)
References
External links
Kamu Mukherjee at IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Syama Prasad Mukherjee
- Radha Kumud Mukherjee
- Benode Behari Mukherjee
- Ava Mukherjee
- Rani Mukerji
- Avinash Mukherjee
- Arun Mukherjee
- Keluarga Mukherjee-Samarth
- Deb Mukherjee
- Swastika Mukherjee
- Kamu Mukherjee
- Uttam Kumar filmography
- Goopy Bagha Phire Elo
- Paka Dekha
- Kokhono Megh
- Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
- Sonar Kella
- Mouchak
- Joi Baba Felunath (film)
- Paar (film)
