Joy Mukherjee

Joy Mukherjee
Born	(1939-02-24)24 February 1939 Jhansi, United Provinces, British India
Died	9 March 2012(2012-03-09) (aged 73) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Residence	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Film actor director producer
Years active	1960–2012
Spouse(s)	Neelam Mukherjee
Children	3
Parent(s)	Sashadhar Mukherjee Sati Devi
Family	Mukherjee-Samarth family

Joy Mukherjee (24 February 1939 – 9 March 2012) was an Indian film actor and director.

Family background

Joy Mukherjee was the son of Sashadhar Mukherjee and Sati Devi. His father was a successful producer and a co-founder of Filmalaya Studios. His uncles were director Subodh Mukherjee, Ashok Kumar, Anoop Kumar and Kishore Kumar. Joy Mukherjee was educated in Col. Brown Cambridge School in Dehra Dun and St. Xavier College. His wife's name is Neelam and they had two sons Monjoy (also known as Toy), Sujoy (also known as Boy) and a daughter Simran.^[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 and Ziddi. Some of his films like Door Ki Aawaz, 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.^[2]

He produced and directed Humsaya although this films 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 Rajesh Khanna in Chailla Babu in 1977 which was a major box office success.This films success solved his insolvency problems which arose due to production of Love In Bombay. Later in 1985, Rajesh Khanna even gave him opportunity as a villain in the film Insaaf Main Karoonga, which became the last successful film of actor Joy Mukherjee.

Financial troubles

Love in Bombay brought deep financial troubles for Joy Mukherjee but late director-actor's wife Neelam, who is releasing the movie 40 years later, says that despite losing everything, the film remained very close to him. "This film was my husband's Waterloo. He lost everything he had in this film. He sunk in lot of his own money, major properties. There were 37 cases of insolvency against him. But he cleared everything and had a clean slate and started afresh. This film was very dear to him despite it bringing so much problems to him," Mrs Mukherjee said.The 1973 film, was the third part of the Love in series which started with Joy debuting with the blockbuster hit Love in Simla in 1960 and the golden jubilee hit Love in Tokyo in 1960.His insolvency issues got resolved when he directed his sole successful directorial venture Chailla Babu in 1977.

Death

Joy Mukherjee died on 9 March 2012 in Mumbai's Leelavati Hospital, where he had been on a ventilator. He had a prolonged illness.^[3]

Filmography

See also

• Pramod Chakravorty

References

External links

• Joy Mukherjee on IMDb
• Sixties star Joy Mukherjee passes away, Avijit Ghosh