Kamu Mukherjee was a Bengali actor, best known for his role as Mandar Bose in Sonar Kella and Harun in Sandip Ray`s first film Phatik Chand. Mukherjee`s first film appearance was in the 1959 film Sonar Harin with Uttam Kumar, Chhabi Biswas and Bhanu Bandopadhyay. He had gone to Satyajit Ray`s house and approached Ray to act in his films and, thereafter, he worked with Ray in nine films. He also starred in the films of Goutam Ghosh, Buddhadev Dashgupta and Arabinda Mukhopadhyay. His notable works include Hirak Rajar Deshe (1980). Mukherjee died at the age of 72 on 6 December 2003 from rheumatoid arthritis in his home in Kolkata.