Joy Mukherjee

Joy Mukherjee
Joy Mukherjee
	United Provinces, British India; (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died	9 March 2012 (aged 73); Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupations	Film actor; director; producer;
Years active	1960–2012
Height	6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Spouse	Neelam Mukherjee
Children	3
Parent	Sashadhar Mukherjee (father);
Family	Mukherjee-Samarth family and Ganguly family

Joy Mukherjee (24 February 1939 – 9 March 2012) was an Indian actor and director. He was referred to as the 'heart throb of the 1960s and 1970s'.

Family background

Joy Mukherjee was the son of

Col. Brown Cambridge School in Dehradun

and St. Xavier College.

He married Neelam and they had two sons and a daughter.[1]

Career

Joy debuted opposite Sadhana in the film Love in Simla (1960), directed by R. K. Nayyar. He then starred with Asha Parekh for several hits like Phir Wohi Dil Laya Hoon, Love in Tokyo, Ziddi and Hum Hindustani. Some of his films like Aao Pyar Karen and Shagird (opposite Saira Bano), Ek Musafir Ek Haseena with Sadhna, Ishaara with Vyjayantimala and Jee Chahta Hai with Rajashree were superhit movies. Most of his movies had hit music. By the late 1960s, acting roles began drying up, so he began directing and producing films.^[2]

He produced and directed

Humsaya although it did not do well. Despite a late success with home production Ek Baar Muskura Do (1972) with brother Deb Mukherjee and later to be sister-in-law Tanuja

, Joy faded from the silver screen.

He later directed

Chailla Babu in 1977 which was a major box office success. This film's success solved his insolvency problems which arose due to production of Love in Bombay. In 1985, Rajesh Khanna gave him opportunity to play a villain in the film Insaaf Main Karoonga

, which became the last successful film of Joy.

Financial troubles

Chailla Babu

, in 1977.

Death

Joy Mukherjee died on 9 March 2012 in Mumbai's Leelavati Hospital, exactly two weeks after his 73rd birthday, where he had been on a ventilator. He had a prolonged illness.[3]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1960	Love in Simla	Dev Kumar Mehra	Debut With Sadhana
1960	Hum Hindustani	Satyendra Nath
1962	Umeed	Shankar
1962	Ek Musafir Ek Hasina	Ajay
1963	Phir Wohi Dil Laya Hoon	Mohan
1964	Aao Pyaar Karen	Kesha
	Ji Chahta Hai	Parwana
	Ishaara	Vijay
	Ziddi	Ashok
	Door Ki Awaz	Prakash
1965	Bahu Beti	Shekhar
1966	Love in Tokyo	Ashok
	Yeh Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hai	Sanjay Malhotra
	Saaz Aur Awaaz	Rajesh
1967	Shagird	Ramesh
1968	Ek Kali Muskayee	Dr. Dilip
	Humsaya	Shyam / Lin Tan (Double Role)	Directed & Produced By Himself
	Dil Aur Mohabbat	Rajesh Choudhary
1969	Dupatta	Himself	Punjabi Film
1970	Aag Aur Daag	Raja
	Ehsan	Raja Prasad
	Inspector	Inspector Rajesh / Agent 707
	Moojrim	Gopal
	Puraskar	Rakesh
1971	Kahin Aar Kahin Paar	CID Agent
1972	Ek Bar Mooskura Do	Dr. Ashok
1977	Haiwan	Major Anil Verma
1977	Chhailla Babu		Directed
1985	Phoolan Devi	Bada Thakur	Bengali Film; Also Released in Hindi as "Kahani Phoolvati Ki"
1985	Insaaf Main Karoongaa	Shamsher Singh
2013	Love in Bombay	Badal	Directed & Produced By Himself. Film was originally made in 1971 but released in 2013.

References

^ "Two weddings, and one story". Archived from the original on 16 September 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
^ "Joy Mukherjee profile". Archived from the original on 23 August 2010. Retrieved 13 April 2006.
^ "Actor Joy Mukherjee dies at 73". Indian Express. Archived from the original on 20 February 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2017.

External links

[1] "Two weddings, and one story". Archived from the original on 16 September 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2016.

[2] "Joy Mukherjee profile". Archived from the original on 23 August 2010. Retrieved 13 April 2006.

[3] "Actor Joy Mukherjee dies at 73". Indian Express. Archived from the original on 20 February 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2017.

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