Sashadhar Mukherjee

Sashadhar Mukherjee
Mukherjee in November 1945
Born	(1909-09-29)29 September 1909 Jhansi, Gwalior State, British India (present–day Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died	3 November 1990(1990-11-03) (aged 81) Bombay, Maharashtra, India (present-day Mumbai)
Occupation	Filmmaker
Spouse	Sati Devi
Children	6 (including Joy Mukherjee, Deb Mukherjee, and Shomu Mukherjee)
Relatives	Ashok Kumar Anoop Kumar Kishore Kumar (Brothers-in-law)
Family	Mukherjee-Samarth family

Sashadhar Mukherjee (29 September 1909 – 3 November 1990) was an Indian filmmaker in Hindi cinema. He started his career with Bombay Talkies in the 1930s, and later established Filmistan Studio with Rai Bahadur Chunilal (father of music director Madan Mohan), Ashok Kumar and Gyan Mukherjee in 1943. In the 1950s, he went on to start his independent studio, Filmalaya. He is noted for films like Dil Deke Dekho (1959), Love in Simla (1960), Ek Musafir Ek Hasina (1962) and Leader (1964). He is part of the distinguished Mukherjee clan of Bollywood.

He won the Filmfare Award for Best Film in 1956 for Jagriti. In 1967, he was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour by the Government of India.^[1]