Overview
- Mithu Mukherjee died in Mumbai on September 21, 2026 after a nearly year-long battle with cancer and was reported to have passed away at a private hospital.
- She began her film career as a teenager with Shesh Parba in 1972 and rose to fame playing the title role in Dinen Gupta’s Marjina Abdulla, which established her as a leading actress.
- Mukherjee worked across Bengali and Hindi films, appearing in Hindi titles such as Khaan Dost and Safed Jhoot while remaining best known for Bengali films like Mouchak and Nishikanya.
- After a mid-1980s hiatus she returned for Chandra Barot’s Ashrita in 1990, which became her final screen appearance before she withdrew from public life and lived privately in Mumbai.
- Prominent figures including Prosenjit Chatterjee and the All Indian Cine Workers Association have issued public tributes, and coverage so far focuses on retrospectives of her two-decade career with no widely reported family statement or public funeral details.