TV REVIEW
FROM PAGES TO PIXELS / What HBO’s ‘House of the Dragon’ promises to bring to the world of ‘A Song of Ice & Fire’
Viewers of House of the Dragon won’t find themselves in a similar predicament as the events surrounding the second Targaryen Civil War have already been documented in full in Fire & Blood (2018).
Boka Baksho / Doiroth
Life, while on rotating wheels, is highly unpredictable. The roads' sundry divergence instigates the birth of limitless notions within us, known or unknown, regarding the whole concept of our life and existence.
Niyotir Lekha
The story begins with Abir coming back to Bangladesh only to reconnect with his long-lost love Jisha and confess his feelings to her. He feels that “the writing of fate” had wrongly changed for the worse during their earlier years, for Jisha chose to marry someone else instead of him many years ago. Jisha argues that despite being a widow in the present time, she has her responsibility as a mother and can't
TV Talkies / TOBUOTO MAA
Parenthood is perhaps the most crucial role an individual can perform in their lifetime, sometimes even before the birth of the child. ‘Tobuoto Maa’ is a rather unique approach to the well-established notion of the struggles and emotions involving motherhood, utilizing a concept that is almost never touched upon in the realms of fiction: child poaching. The central characters of this drama, namely Saleha (played by Moushumi Hamid) and her husband (Shatabdi Wadud), are child-poachers who steal newborn babies from hospitals and sell them off for a living.
Ochena Dana
Everyone dreams of their happily-ever-after scenarios. Fall in love, get married, live the rest of the life with utmost bliss. However, reality doesn't always condone to such a grandiose idea; especially when you're least expecting tragedy. This is the premise of Ochena Dana, where Nitu (Sabnam Faria) elopes with her boyfriend Rasel (Anisur Rahman Milon) so that she doesn't have to undergo a marriage arranged
TV Talkies / Ratri Diprohor
Othoi (Aparna Ghosh) is a foreign university student who has just returned to Bangladesh, intending to surprise her family and boyfriend with a sudden visit. Her plans are thwarted when she is randomly left behind by a taxi-driver near the Banani highway in the middle of the night, leaving her no way to get home by herself. As she waits for her boyfriend to come pick her up, her only option is to wait in the scary
TV Talkies / Jonmodin
Opu (played by Tawsif) is an impulsive teenager constantly making the wrong choices in life, which includes skipping out on classes, ignoring his friends' and mother's advice and constantly running after a woman known to use men for her own benefit. This young woman (played by Jessia) is a foul-mouthed individual who loves to prey on gullible men like Opu, and only feigns fake interest to make them do her
Tomar Parai Asbo Fire
Amidst the endless array of TV shows and serials trying their best to fit the theme of Pahela Baishakh during every 14th April, there are a few dramas that aim to not follow the trope and simply feature a feel-
Madhyabartini
Anyone familiar with the short stories of the legendary Rabindranath Tagore will know Madhyabartini as a story of love, choices and despair.
President Sirajuddoula
With a name like “President Sirajuddoula”, one can clearly expect what, or who, the show revolves around.
Post Graduate
Polash (Chanchal Chowdhury) the self-proclaimed “post-graduate” lives his life with his lecher nephew Hanif (Siddiqur Rahman) always trying to weasel money out of him.
LEGION
Based on the "X-Men" comic, "Legion" is based around David Haller, who was diagnosed to be schizophrenic at an early age and has been kept at mental hospitals after a few chaotic events.
TOMAR PICHU PICHU
Anila the food vlogger (played by Mim) is furious at the popularity garnered by the new food cart in town: Food Buzz, owned by Abrar (played by Tahsan).
Aj Robibar (1999)
Aj Robibar" is a classic television sitcom where the story is based on an ordinary yet not so ordinary household with complicated members in the family.
COMEDY 420
Residents of the same building run into crazy problems, often with each other, which always ends up in troubling real-life predicaments. Hilarity ensues.
BRISTIDER BARI
The members of a family are all affected by the apparent arrival of Bristi, who had disappeared from her family 15 years ago when she was 12 years old.
EASY
Joe Swanberg's eight-episode anthology, “Easy”, explores the many embodiments of love, with almost every episode presenting a different story set in Chicago.
