Kamu Mukherjee

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.{{Cite web|url=http://halfsamosa.in/extraordinary-actor-called-kamu-mukherjee-top-five-roles/|title=An extraordinary actor called Kamu Mukherjee & his top five roles|work=Half Samosa|date=10 July 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170826161558/http://halfsamosa.in/extraordinary-actor-called-kamu-mukherjee-top-five-roles/|archivedate=26 August 2017|url-status=live|accessdate=23 March 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.in.com/kamu-mukherjee/profile-159027.html|title=Kamu Mukherjee|website=In.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331191029/http://www.in.com/kamu-mukherjee/profile-159027.html|archivedate=31 March 2016|url-status=dead|accessdate=23 March 2018}} Mukherjee is known for his performances in different types of roles, both serious and comic, in Ray's films.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E7YadsNfe3QC&q=Kamu+Mukherjee+actor&pg=PT718|title=Manik and I: My Life with Satyajit Ray|last=Bijoya Ray|date=August 2012|publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=9788184757507|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324101626/https://books.google.com/books?id=E7YadsNfe3QC&pg=PT718&lpg=PT718&dq=Kamu+Mukherjee+actor&source=bl&ots=QAPTCFgK30&sig=dA92jbeQmiLBsvAHd3tRpCGI0VE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWh7zO74LaAhWJq48KHX8SASE4ChDoAQhOMAg#v=onepage&q=Kamu%20Mukherjee%20actor&f=false|archivedate=24 March 2018|url-status=live|accessdate=23 March 2018}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/notes-to-the-audience-3/|title=Notes to the Audience|author=Suanshu Khurana |date=29 April 2013|website=The Indian Express|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324101631/http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/notes-to-the-audience-3/|archivedate=24 March 2018|url-status=live|accessdate=23 March 2018}} He also starred in the films of Goutam Ghosh, Buddhadev Dashgupta and Arabinda Mukhopadhyay.{{Cite web|url=https://indiancine.ma/grid/year/name=Kamu_Mukherjee|title=Kamu Mukherjee|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324101811/https://indiancine.ma/grid/year/name=Kamu_Mukherjee|archivedate=24 March 2018|url-status=live|accessdate=23 March 2018}} Mukherjee died at the age of 72 on 6 December 2003 from rheumatoid arthritis in his home in Kolkata.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1031207/asp/calcutta/story_2652844.asp|title=Actor dies|newspaper=The Telegraph | location=India |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324101600/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1031207/asp/calcutta/story_2652844.asp|archivedate=24 March 2018|url-status=dead|date=7 December 2013 | accessdate=11 November 2018}}

• Sonar Harin (1959) as Abdulla
• Charulata (1964) as cameo (uncredited)
• Nayak (1966) as Pritish
• Kokhono Megh (1968) as Sotu Basak
• Kamallata (1969)
• Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969) as cameo (uncredited)
• Nishachar
• Mouchak (1974)
• Sonar Kella (1974) as Mandar Bose
• Sawamsiddha
• Hangsaraj (1976)
• Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977)
• Joi Baba Felunath (1979) as Arjun, the knife thrower
• Paka Dekha (1980) as a police constable
• Heerak Rajar Deshe (1980) as sentry in the treasury
• Phatik Chand (film) (1983) as Harun
• Paar (film) (1984) as the sardar of a jute mill
• Abir
• Phera (1988) as Mantu Dutta
• Shakha Proshakha (1990) as a domestic help at the Majumder house
• Goopy Bagha Phire Elo (1992)

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