Television of existence

[Continued from last issue]

At that time there were lots of limitations with technical stuffs and on top of that this kind of program was able to be showcased only because of the ability of the television staffs and employees because it is really hard to show differences between the husband and its wife on screen to the audiences. Host Abdul Matin would ask one of them what do they like and then on the other hand the other person would have a headphone in their ear listening to the music. On participating in this program television anchor Kamrul Islam Robin became popular among the audience. Later on Abdul Matin and Kazi Kayum produced another show which is basically subject and objective related program. Like one time the topic was on moon; here lots of various questions were asked about moon to the audiences. And on top of that for the purpose of entertainment there were songs about moon, poetry about moon, and also the discussions about the usage of moon in stories or novels.

After doing programs on these kinds of themes Abdul Matin sir decided the subject of the program to be “Bangladesher Haat”. After going out of the studio he captured the scenes of hath. But as the Television did not give permission to go outside Dhaka and shot some haats he got mad at them and then finally he didn't do the program. But even after that various quiz show was produced on various ideas but nowadays the trend of quiz show is facing out from the television. The biggest reason which might be is that nowadays brilliant and meticulous participant are harder to find nowadays. In Bangladesh television Ferdous Bappy is doing a program and Abdun Noor Tushar including all the satellite channels organized a normal general knowledge program which is still going on nowadays.

Professor Adul Matin used three cameras in his quiz program. But as another producer Sakina Sarwar faced problem with lots of student from Udayan School he decided to lend one of his cameras to Sakina Sarower. With that camera Sakina Sarwar made a stage and organized the program with all of the students outside the television parking lot. The stage was only able to make at such a short time only because of the dedication and hard work of the television crew and members.

There was a little drama in Begum Momtaz Hossain's program called - Pipre O Ghughu. Child artist Tarana Halim as a student of Udayan School acted for the first time in this drama.

At that time the producers used to think enough about how an artist can prove his or her artistry. There was a time at television where dancing programs used to be produced with so much care. Mustafa Monowar himself was a good planner of dancing program. Later Barkatullah joined. Barkatullah himself is a good dancing artist. His wife Jinat Barkatullah is a famous dancing artist as well. Another producer of television Sakina Sarwar used to love making dancing program. On later, dancing artist Laila Haque joined the television as a producer. Still Laila Haque alone is trying to keep the dancing program on television.

The writer is Managing Director, Channel i
Translated by Imtiaz Salim