Curiosidades

While she got along with her leading men, such as Vinod Mehra, Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Manoj Kumar, and Rishi Kapoor, her favorite co-star is Sanjeev Kumar, who played her boyfriend, father, and brother-in-law in different films.

After she became a character actress, she played sister-in-law to one of her favorite actors, another Bengali star named Mithun Chakraborty.

Her personal favorite songs from her films are: "Jaa re bachpan tu jaa" from Kuchhe Dhaage (1973); "Woh Kya Hai" and "Sun ri Pawan" from Anuraag (1972); "Rim jhim gire saawan" from Manzil (1979). However, her most favorite song is "Chhod de saari duniya" from Saraswatichandra (1968), which she did not act in but starred Nutan, who she had worked with in Anuraag (1972).

Her real-life husband, Jayanta Mukherjee, played her husband on-screen in one of her first Hindi films, Kuchhe Dhaage (1973).

She came from a conservative family, where her grandfather was a judge, and her father was in the army.

She claims that she was young, she was a tomboy who had more boys than girls for friends.

She said that she was married when she was in high school, after the legendary composer, Hemanta Mukherjee, who had composed her first few Bengali films, approached her father and asked whether his son Jayanta Mukherjee can marry her, and her father agreed.

Claims that she turned down the heroine roles in Koshish (1972) and Gaai Aur Gori (1973) both went to Jaya Bachchan, who earned a Filmfare Award nomination for the former. She also turned down the title role in Bobby (1973), which went to Dimple Kapadia who earned a Filmfare Award. She turned down O Patriota (1982), when went to Parveen Babi. She lost the role to Mumtaz Askari in Prem Kahani (1975).

Mother of Bollywood actress Megha Chatterjee.

Daughter in law of Late Hemanta Mukherjee and Late Bela Mukherjee.

Sister-in-law of Ranu Mukherjee.

Has an elder sister and brother.

Daughter Payal Mukherjee is a producer on television. She was married to Dicky Sinha. Payal passed away from severe diabetes in 2019.

Changed her name from Indira (her birth name) to Moushumi.

Was involved with film distributor Ramesh Sippy in 1988. He is married to Raksha. Raksha is the sister of Shobha Kapoor, the wife of Jeetendra.

Was involved with Farooq Sheikh.

Was involved with Boney Kapoor prior to signing the film Hum Paanch. Her exit from the film was due to her husband Babu demanding she leave the leave film.

Mukul Dutt was planning on making a film with Moushumi in 1982. It was to be based on Nirala's ""Nurupama". The project was to be produced by Audesh Chandra. The film was eventually scrapped.

Starred in the shelved movie Vaishali Films "Sara Jahan"(1978) Starring Girish Karnad (Replaced Vinod Khanna), Moushumi Chatterji,Johnny Walker, Keshto Mukherjee, Music by Laxmikant Pyarelal, Produced by Deenanath Shastri,Directed by Basu Chatterji.

Starred in the shelved film Om Aadi Parashakti Movies "Prem Mandir" (1987) Starring Moushumi Chatterjee,Shekhar Suman,Divya Rana, Khushboo,Anupam Kher,Prem Chopra, Sadashiv Amrapurkar,Bandini Mishra, Shakti Kapoor, Music by Laxmikant Pyarelal, Produced by K Ranjeet Kumar, Directed by Sunil Nayyar.

Moushumi welcomed her first child Paayal in December 1974.

Moushumi welcomed her second daughter Megha on April 11, 1982.