Joy Mukherjee was an influential Indian actor and director, born on February 24, 1939, in Jhansi, United Provinces, British India. He hailed from a prominent film family; his father, Sashadhar Mukherjee, was a successful producer and co-founder of Filmalaya Studios. Joy received his education at Col. Brown Cambridge School in Dehradun and St. Xavier College. He married Neelam Mukherjee and had two sons and a daughter. Joy Mukherjee passed away on March 9, 2012, in Mumbai due to lung failure.