Tanisha Mukherjee was born on January 1st 1978 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Since the 1940s her family have been working in the Bollywood film industry. It includes her great-grandmother Rattan Bai, paternal grandfather Sashadhar Mukherjee, grandmother Shobhna Samarth, uncles Joy Mukherjee and Deb Mukherjee and aunt Nutan. Somu Mukherjee and Tanuja are her parents. Actress Kajol is her elder sister and her brother-in-law is Ajay Devgan.
Tanisha dated Yash Chopra's son Uday Chopra, who was her co star in Neal N Nikki, but their relationship did not last long and ended in 2007.
TANISHA'S MOVIES
Before trying her luck in movies, Tanisha was a VJ for Channel [V] in 1995 and hosted a show called BPL Oye. Her first film was Sssshhhh with co-star Dino Morea. It was a big flop. It was followed by two more flop movies namely Popcorn Khao! Mast Ho Jao (2004) and Tango Charlie (2005).
Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar, was her first hit. This film had big stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, and Katrina Kaif. Tanisha played Abhishek's childhood friend in this movie.
Her next film Neal N Nikki opposite Uday Chopra, did not work out well at the box office. In 2008, One Two Three and Sarkar Raj were her releases. One Two Three was a comedy flick and she played Chandini in this movie.
In 2007, she appeared in a Tamil movie named Unnale Unnale (2007) and in a Telugu movie Kantri (2008). She has got two releases in 2009, Raas Leela (2009) and Tum Milo Toh Sahi (2009). In Tum Milo Toh Sahi (2009) her co-stars are Nana Patekar, Dimple Kapadia, Rehan Khan, Shefali Chhaya and Sunil Shetty. Tanisha has a cameo role in it.
