Bengali Beauty-Moushumi Chatterjee

Moushumi Chatterjee was born on April 26, 1948 in Calcutta, India. She is a Bollywood actress. Her father Prantosh Chattopadhyaya was in the Army. She had a sister and a brother. Her grandfather was a judge. Moushmi is married to Jayant Mukherjee, son of famous, late singer 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 at that time. The actress was introduced to movie audiences in 1967 in a Bengali movie Balika Badhu directed by Tarun Majumdar.

She was on the top of her career in the 70s and early 80s, when she starred opposite heroes such as Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra and Jitendra. Moushumi received Filmfare nominations as Best Actress for Anuraag (1972) where she played a blind girl, and as Best Supporting Actress for Roti Kapda Aur Makaan (1974) where she played a rape survivor. She still acts in movies, but not at the same pace as earlier in her career.

Chatterjee acted with her youngest daughter, Megha, in her daughter's debut movie, a Bengali film titled Bhalo Bashar Onek Naam directed by Tarun Majumdar, the same person who directed Chatterji's very first movie, Balika Badhu.

Awards-

Filmfare nominations as Best Actress for "Anuraag" (1972)
Best Supporting Actress for "Roti Kapda Aur Makaan" (1974)

Moushumi Chatterjee was never considered to be a glamorous figure and she had crooked teeth, and yet, she was considered one of the most beautiful faces to hit the Hindi screen in the 1970s.