Recalling her meeting with Ray, Mukherjee wrote: In the early 1960s, she was recruited by Satyajit Ray to portray the role of Arati in the 1963 film Mahanagar ( The Big City). Mukherjee plays Sita, the younger sister of Ishwar (Abhi Bhattacharya), who kills herself when-as a prostitute waiting for her first customer-she finds out the customer is none other than her estranged brother. In the film, Ghatak depicts the economic and socio-political crisis of Bengal from 1948 to 1962 how the crisis has first and foremost left one bereft of one's conscience.
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Her next major film was Ritwik Ghatak's Subarnarekha ( The Golden Thread ) made in 1962, but released in 1965 – the last in a trilogy examining the socio-economic implications of partition, the other two being Meghe Dhaka Tara ( The Cloud-Capped Star) (1960) and Komal Gandhar ( E-Flat) (1961). Initially, she brightens his life but then World War II and the Bengal Famine hits them. Mukherjee plays a 16-year-old girl who marries a middle-aged man. The film is set in a Bengal village before and during the horrific famine of 1943 in Bengal that saw over 5 million die. Mukherjee first made a major impact with Mrinal Sen's Baishey Shravan ( Wedding Day) in 1960. She made her film debut as a child artist in Premendra Mitra's Dui beaee". Some of the plays she acted in included Naa and Kalarah. She worked on stage with doyens such as Sisir Bhaduri, Ahindra Choudhury, Nirmalendu Lahiri and Chhabi Biswas.
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As a young girl, she became involved in the theater. Madhabi Mukherjee was born on 10 February 1942 and was raised with her sister Manjari by their mother in Kolkata, in what was then Bengal, India.