Chabial gears up to storm the small screen this Eid
Chabial, the creative collective that emerged on the Bangladeshi TV scene in the mid-2000s and left a mark with their new wave of brave, innovative TV plays, are coming together to provide quality content for the TV audiences this coming Eid.
In partnership with GroupM and Dhoni-Chitra Ltd, twelve Chabial directors will produce TV plays for the upcoming Eid-ul Fitr and Eid-ul Azha, under the 'Chabial Eid Re union' initiative, followed by 12 films made by these directors.
Reputed TV directors and Chabial veterans Redwan Rony, Asutosh Sujan, Saraf Ahmed Zibon, Ashfaque Nipun, Golam Kibria Farooki, Iftakher Ahmed Fahmi, Mostafa Kamal Raz, Whomayun Sadhu, Ishtiak Rumel, Mahmudul Islam, Ali Fida Akram Tozo and Adnan Al Rajeev will produce the plays under the supervision of Chabial founder and director extraordinaire Mostofa Sarwar Farooki.
The announcement was made on Tuesday evening from a restaurant in Gulshan, where Farooki, Asiatic 360 Deputy Managing Director Iresh Zaker and GroupM Managing Director Morshed Alam were present, along with the 12 directors.
“It takes us filmmakers several years to make a film, but we have a hunger to tell stories in that period. Television is the medium for that,” Farooki told The Daily Star. “The crisis of quality content in our television has hit three industries –TV itself, the advertisement industries, and also our cinema. Because it is through TV that you can constantly produce new content and influence the change of the audience.” About the content of these new stories, he added: “You cannot do the same revolution twice. What we did when we started Chabial was radical at the time, but doing that again will not make sense. Also, we were all much younger back then. In the last decade, we have all grown personally and professionally; our view of life has changed, our visual language has developed. In these new plays, that is what we want to show.”
The first seven of the plays will be broadcast this Eid, while the rest will be made for Eid-ul Azha. The plays' titles were also revealed to be “Chhabbish Din Matro”, “Chikon Pin-er Charger”, “Haye Chil Sonali Dana'r Chil”, “Nongor Feli Ghate Ghate”, “Bikal Bela'r Pakhi”, “Abar Tora Saheb Ho” and “Chheleta Kintu Bhalo Chhilo”. However, the TV channels where these will be aired, along with schedules, were not revealed.