Actor Joy Mukherjee has been hospitalised and is under observation, sources at Mumbai's Leelavati Hospital said on Friday.

Mukherjee was admitted in the hospital on Thursday "with chronic obstructive lung diseases," hospital spokesperson Dr Narendra Trivedi said.

Mukherjee, a leading actor in the 1960s, featured in films like Ziddi (1964), Love in Tokyo (1966) and Shagird (1967).

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