Madhabi Mukherjee

Madhabi Mukherjee

83 (1942-02-10)
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]

Madhabi Mukherjee, née Chakraborty, (born 10 February 1942) is an Indian actress. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Bengali film Dibratrir Kabya. She has acted in some of the most critically acclaimed films in Bengali cinema and is considered one of the greatest actresses of Bengali cinema.

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Charulata 1964 (7.6)

In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art.
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The Big City 1963 (7.8)

After her husband loses his job, a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.
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The Golden Thread 1965 (6.6)

After an old college friend offers him a job at an iron foundry, the upright and honest Ishwar leaves a shanty town on the outskirts of Calcutta where he lives with a group of refugees from East Bengal. With plans to forge a solid living for himself, sister Sita and Abhiram, an orphaned boy he offers a home to, Ishwar is accused of selling out and deserting his people.