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Bengali-Marathi family within the Hindi film industry

The Mukherjee-Samarth family is a Hindu Bengali-Marathi family that has been involved in the Hindi film industry since the 1930s, Shobhana Samarth having first acted in a film in 1935. The Mukherjee family was connected to the Samarth family by Tanuja's marriage to Shomu Mukherjee in 1973.^[1]

Mukherjees

The Mukherjee side of the family is a Bengali HinduKulin Brahmin family headed by Sashadhar Mukherjee, the founder of Filmalaya studios.^[2] Sashadhar was married to Ashok Kumar's sister Satirani Ganguly. Their daughter, Chandana Mukherjee, was a scholar of her times. She was the eldest among all the Mukherjee children. She got married into Guha Family, landlords of their times.^{[citation needed]} Shubir is also a producer.

Their five sons, Rono Mukherjee, Joy Mukherjee, Deb Mukherjee, Shomu Mukherjee and Shubir Mukherjee followed him into the industry. Rono w