Overview
- Moushumi Chatterjee, in interviews published Tuesday by NDTV and The Indian Express, explains why she married at 15 while in Class 10.
- She links the match to her debut in the 1967 Bengali film Balika Badhu, saying music director Hemanta Mukherjee connected the two families.
- She recalls a dying aunt asking to see her wedding, which led to the ceremony being arranged within a month.
- She says she became a mother at 17 and later built a leading career in the 1970s and 1980s with stars like Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan.
- The coverage presents her story as a personal history from the 1960s, not an endorsement of child marriage.