Kamu Mukherjee (14 June 1931 – 6 December 2003) was a Bengali actor, best known for his role as Mandar Bose in Sonar Kella[1] and Harun in Sandip Ray's first film Phatik Chand.[2]
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.[3][4] Mukherjee is known for his performances in different types of roles, both serious and comic, in Ray's films.[5] 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.[6] He also starred in the films of Goutam Ghosh, Buddhadev Dashgupta and Arvinda Mukherjee.[7] Mukherjee died at the age of 72 on 6 December 2003 from rheumatoid arthritis in his home in Kolkata.[4][8]
Selected filmography
- Sonar Harin
- Charulata
- Nayak as Pritish
- Kokhono Megh
- Kamallata
- Nishachar
- Mouchak
- Sonar Kella as Mandar Bose
- Sawamsiddha
- Hangsaraj
- Shatranj Ke Khilari
- Joi Baba Felunath as Arjun
- Paka Dekha as a police constable
- Heerak Rajar Deshe sentry in the treasury
- Phatik Chand (film) as Harun
- Paar (film) as the sardar of a jute mill
- Abir
- Phera as Mantu Dutta
- Shakha Proshakha as a domestic help at the Majumder house
- Goopy Bagha Phire Elo
References
- ↑ Childhood Days: A Memoir{{#if:Satyajit Ray|, Satyajit Ray}(14 October 2000). ISBN 9789351180753
- ↑ Film review: Phatikchand, starring Rajiv Ganguly, Kamu Mukherjee, Haradhan Banerjee. India Today(20 July 2013).
- ↑ An extraordinary actor called Kamu Mukherjee & his top five roles(10 July 2017).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kamu Mukherjee. In.com.
- ↑ Manik and I: My Life with Satyajit Ray{{#if:Bijoya Ray|, Bijoya Ray}(August 2012). ISBN 9788184757507
- ↑ Notes to the Audience. The Indian Express(29 April 2013).
- ↑ Kamu Mukherjee.
- ↑ Actor dies. The Telegraph(7 December 2013).