Bohubrihi
Bohubrihi was one of the most popular drama serials ever aired on Bangladesh Television. The bangla word Bohubrihi means the multiple dimension of anything and here it means the mystery of life. The story was written by famous author, dramatist, screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker Humayun Ahmed. "Bohubrihi" the same named book is an adaptation from the drama serial, which is an extremely rare case for the creator Humayun Ahmed.[1] The serial was popular for symbolic presentation of social facts as well as witty comments from even the most ordinary roles.
Bohubrihi | |
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বহুব্রীহি | |
Genre | Sitcom |
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Country of origin | Bangladesh |
Original language(s) | Bengali |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 26 |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Nawazish Ali Khan |
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Original network | Bangladesh Television |
Original release | 1988 – 1989 |
Cast
The major casts of the drama serial were as follows.
- Abul Hayat as Mr. Sobhan
- Aleya Ferdousi as Minu, Mr. Sobhan's wife
- Lutfun Nahar Lota as Mili
- Nahid Zaman as Bilu
- Asaduzzaman Noor as Anis
- Torsha (তোরশা) as Togor
- Rehnuma Tarannum as Nisha
- Aly Zaker as Farid Mama[2]
- Lucky Enam as Esha
- Afzal Hossain as Doctor
- Abul Khair as Emdad Khondokar
- Nazmul Huda Bachchu as Karim
- Afzal Sharif as Kader
- Mahmuda Khatun as Rahima's mother
Premise
The main characters of the Sitcom is Mr. Sobhan, who is a wealthy retired family person living with his family in Dhanmondi Dhaka in a house named "Niribili". And the main characteristics of this person is he is always involve in finding social and cultural problems around him, but unfortunately all his plan fails at the end as almost every problems he found had nothing to do with the reality.He loves to wtite down the problems in a big note books and his wife "minu" was always irritated with that. Mr. Anis was a tenant in his house, who is a widower having two children, only thing he was good at was giving people a good suggestion. All the problems identified by Mr. Sobhan was always criticized by Mr. Anis, until one day when Mr. Sobhan came up with the idea to work with the names of the martyrs of 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh.
References
- Ahmed, Humayun. "Bohubrihi". Amazon. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- "One Off - In living and loving Occupational Hazards". The Daily Star. 26 September 2008. Retrieved 13 December 2017.