Tag: Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

  • Mirchi launches new show ‘Sunday Suspense Hindi’

    Mirchi launches new show ‘Sunday Suspense Hindi’

    Mumbai: Music and entertainment company Mirchi has launched its new show “Mirchi Sunday Suspense Hindi.” The radio show presents dramatic readings from Indian literature across suspense, crime, horror genres and it airs every Sunday between 3 p.m and 4 p.m on Radio Mirchi.

    The forty-minute-long show will be aired in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, North Bengaluru, and Mangalore, as well as in international markets including UAE and the USA. It will also be available to stream on Spotify, along with two other Mirchi IPs – “Sunday Suspense Bangla” and “Calling Karan: Season 1 and 2,” said the company in a statement.

    The show features famous stories by celebrated authors namely, Satyajit Ray, Conan Doyle, and Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, bringing to life their works through a play of sounds, music, and background scores, it added.

    “The launch of Sunday Suspense is an effort in this direction whereby we are not only launching fresh formats on the radio but also providing some nail-biting, dramatised renditions of horror and crime stories from Indian literature,” said Entertainment Network India Ltd executive president Nandan Srinath. “The popularity of Sunday Suspense Bangla strengthens our confidence in this new show and we are looking forward to our listeners’ response to it. We are also happy to have partnered with Spotify as this will enable our discerning consumers to access our content 24*7.”

    Listeners can catch repeats of “Mirchi Sunday Suspense Hindi” every following Wednesday post-midnight or Saturday at 11 a.m.

  • DD Bharati brings back ‘Byomkesh Bakshi’ after 22 years

    DD Bharati brings back ‘Byomkesh Bakshi’ after 22 years

    NEW DELHI: At a time when a feature film has just been made on the subject, Doordarshan is re-telecasting the popular series Byomkesh Bakshi, which was made more than twenty years earlier in 1993.

     

    The series is being telecast on DD’s cultural channel DD Bharati.

     

    It was the first Hindi series based on the Byomkesh Bakshi character created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. The series was made over two seasons, a 14-episode series in 1993 and a twenty-part series in 1997.  The series achieved cult status and was even repeated several times on DD National.

     

    The series stars Rajit Kapur and K K Raina as Byomkesh Bakshi and Ajit Bandyopadhyay respectively. Both actors known for their stage experience also went on to act in many films later.

     

    The series was directed by one of the masters of art cinema in the seventies and eighties, Basu Chatterjee.

     

    Byomkesh Bakshi, a Bengali detective takes on spine-chilling cases with his sidekick Ajit Bandyopadhyay. 

     

    The series will be aired every Friday at 10 pm on DD Bharati.