Kamu Mukherjee

Kamu Mukherjee was a Bengali actor, best known for his role as Mandar Bose in Sonar Kella and Harun-al-Rashid in Sandip Ray's first film Phatik Chand.

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. Mukherjee is known for his performances in different types of roles, both serious and comic, in Ray's films. 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. He also starred in the films of Goutam Ghosh, Buddhadev Dashgupta and Arabinda Mukhopadhyay. Mukherjee died at the age of 72 on 6 December 2003 from rheumatoid arthritis in his home in Kolkata.

Selected filmography

Sonar Harin as AbdullaCharulata as cameo

Nayak as PritishKokhono Megh as Sotu BasakKamallata Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne as cameo Nishachar
Mouchak Sonar Kella as Mandar BoseSawamsiddhaHangsaraj Shatranj Ke Khilari
Joi Baba Felunath as Arjun, the knife throwerPaka Dekha as a police constable Heerak Rajar Deshe as sentry in the treasury Phatik Chand as HarunPaar as the sardar of a jute millAbirPhera as Mantu DuttaShakha Proshakha as a domestic help at the Majumder house
''Goopy Bagha Phire Elo''