Hrishikesh Mukherjee was born in the city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) in pre-independence India to a Bengali brahmin family. … ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ನೋಡಿ

Mukherjee chose to begin working, initially as a cameraman, and then film editor, in B. N. Sircar's New Theatres in Calcutta in the late 1940s, where he learned his skills from Subodh Mitter ('Kenchida'), a well known … ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ನೋಡಿ

Mukherjee was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award by the Government of India, in 1999. Mukherjee was chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification and of the
His … ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ನೋಡಿ

In later life, Mukherjee suffered from chronic kidney failure and would go to Lilavati Hospital for dialysis. He was admitted to Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai early on Tuesday, 6 June 2006 after he complained … ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ನೋಡಿ

Mukherjee was married and has three daughters and two sons. His wife died more than three decades before him. His younger brother Dwarkanath Mukherjee helped write the screenplay for many of his … ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ನೋಡಿ

• 2001: Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India
• 2001: NTR National Award
• Rashtriya Kishore Kumar Samman from the Government of Madhya Pradesh for 1997-1998 … ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ನೋಡಿ