Known For: Indian actress (born 1955)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: actor
Country: India
City: Kolkata
Date of Birth: Sunday, 26 April 1953
Language Bangla, Hindi
Moushumi Chatterjee is an Indian actress known for her work in Hindi and Bengali cinema. She was one of the highest paid actresses in Hindi films during the 1970s. She joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019; she was previously a member of the Indian National Congress.
| BirthPlace | Kolkata |
| Spouses | Jayant Mukherjee |
| Children | Megha Mukherjee, Payal Mukherjee |
| Wikipedia | Moushumi_Chatterjee |
Chatterjee was born in Calcutta to a Bengali Brahmin family which hailed from Bikrampur in undivided Bengal. Her father, Prantosh Chattopadhyaya, was in the Indian Army and her grandfather was a judge. Her real name is Indira and Moushumi is her screen-name. Indira Chattopadhyaya (her real name) was married to Jayanta Mukherjee at a young age. The couple has two daughters. Jayanta Mukherjee is the son of popular film producer, music composer and singer Hemant Kumar. Jayanta is also an exponent of Rabindra Sangeet. With the support and encouragement of her husband and father-in-law, Indira accepted the offer to act in films and adopted Moushumi as her screen name. Her film career as a heroine began only after her wedding. She always prioritised her family above her film roles. Her daughter Payal, who had type 1 diabetes was in coma since 2018 and died on 13 December 2019.
