Who was Mithu Mukherjee? The Marjina Abdulla and Safed Jhooth star has died at 71
Dubai: Mithu Mukherjee was one of the defining faces of Bengali cinema in the 1970s and 1980s, a star who worked with Uttam Kumar, Soumitra Chattopadhyay and Ranjit Mullick, and who carried her career into Hindi films opposite some of Bollywood's biggest names of the era. Born in Kolkata, she came from a film family: her aunt was the actress Anita Guha, and her niece, Ritu Das, also went on to…
Mithu Mukherjee was a prominent Bengali and Hindi film actress who rose to fame in the 1970s and 1980s. Born in Kolkata, she began her acting career at the age of 17 with the Bengali film Shesh Parba. Her breakthrough role came in 1973 when she played the title character in Dinen Gupta's Marjina Abdulla, an adaptation of the Arabian Nights tale.
She went on to star in numerous successful Bengali films such as Nishi Kanya, Mouchak, Swayamsiddha, and Hotel Snow Fox, often sharing the screen with legendary actors like Uttam Kumar. Mukherjee's career extended into Hindi cinema in 1976 with Dulal Guha's Khaan Dost, and she later appeared in notable films like Basu Chatterjee's Safed Jhooth alongside Ashok Kumar, Vinod Mehra, and Amol Palekar.
Despite a brief hiatus due to the underperformance of her 1984 film Dujane, she made a triumphant return in 1990 with the Bengali drama Ashrita, her final film. After her passing on September 21, 2026, at the age of 71, Mithu Mukherjee was mourned by the entire Bengali film industry, with tributes pouring in from industry luminaries and organizations.
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