Veteran Bengali actress Mithu Mukherjee, a familiar face of Bengali cinema in the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 71. The actress reportedly breathed her last at a private hospital in Mumbai on Sunday night after battling cancer for nearly a year. She had largely stayed away from the public eye in her later years.

Prosenjit Chatterjee mourns the demise of Mithu Mukherjee

News of her demise prompted tributes from the Bengali film fraternity, including actor Prosenjit Chatterjee. Mourning her death, he wrote on X, “The news of Mithu Mukhopadhyay's passing is extremely heartbreaking. Her memory and her work will live on forever among us. With deepest respects.”