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Mithu Mukherjee (actress)

Indian Bengali film actress (1955–2026)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
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Mithu Mukherjee was an Indian actress who appeared in Hindi as well as Bengali cinema. She made her debut in a 1972 Bengali film Shesh Parba directed by Chitta Bose. She was catapulted to stardom after she had donned the role of Marjina in Dinen Gupta's Marjina Abdulla (1973) and sustained it with further roles in Bengali films such as Nishi Kanya (1973), Mouchak (1974), Swayamsiddha (1975), Hotel Snow Fox (1976), Bhagyachakra (1980) and Sandhi (1980). She made her Bollywood debut with Dulal Guha's Khaan Dost (1976). After her Dujane (1984) tanked at the box office, she took a sabbatical of seven years and returned to the silver screen with Chandra Barot's hugely successful commercial drama Ashrita (1990).

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mithu Mukherjee (actress)” as indian Bengali film actress (1955–2026). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 1973, 1974, 1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Mithu, Mukherjee and actress can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as indian Bengali film actress (1955–2026). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mithu Mukherjee (actress)” 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.