Moonmoon Banerjee

Moonmoon Banerjee (born 23 April 1969) is an Indian television actress who rose to fame with Balaji Telefilms' Kasautii Zindagii Kay as Sampada. Moon was born in Kolkata, and was raised in Jamshedpur and Mumbai. A well known face in advertising circles. Her real name is Mohua. Her father's elder brother kept the name Moonmoon because he loved actress Munmun Sen. Her biggest break was Shobna Desai's Babul Ki Duwayen Leti Jaa on Zee TV. After that she did the role of Anuj Saxena's sister in Kkusum and left it. It is advertising which gave me recognition and not the TV Serials. She started as the young Horlicks mom in an ad made by Pradeep Saarkar. She is also in Kassauti Zindagi Kay as Sampada. Her first brush with the industry was when she was still in school. A photographer spotted her and approached her for a calendar shoot. After doing a few shows initially, she took a break to focus on her studies. After completing her studies, she did a Bangladeshi film, and thereafter started working with TV again. Moonmoon has done over a 100 TV commercials including the well acclaimed Sunsilk ad by Ram Madhvani. Her claim to fame was with Balaji Telefilms mega drama Kasautii Zindagi Kay. Post that, she has done a number of well known shows including Sasural Genda Phool. She has also done a Telugu film called Yagnam. Moonmoon Banerjee was earlier married to film director Gautam Joglekar who is the son of noted filmmaker/ screenwriter Sai Paranjpye. Moonmoon is now married to producer Neeraj Sharma since August 15, 2010 and they have a 4 year old son Rumeer.