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Joy Kumar Mukherjee

actor, businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ27656491
Source-derived summary

Joy Kumar Mukherjee is an Indian Bengali film and television actor. In 2010, he acted in Target: The Final Mission and received Anandalok "Best Debutant" and "Best action hero" award. In 2011, he acted in Mone Pore Aajo Shei Din with Sayantika Banerjee. His 2012 film Astra was the most commercially successful movie in his career, following the success of Target in 2010. He appeared in the television series Chokher Tara Tui on Star Jalsha.

In 2019, Joy appeared on the Bengali television channel Sun Bangla in Jiyon Kathi, followed by another comeback in 2022 on Star Jalsha in Bikram betal.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Joy Kumar Mukherjee” is actor, businessman. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kumar, Mukherjee and actor, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2011, 2012, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-06-21. For this dossier, Kumar, Mukherjee and actor is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “actor, businessman” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27656491. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2019.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Joy Kumar Mukherjee” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.