“Dolls House”: Daily soap for women on ATN Bangla

Though daily soap operas aired on different satellite TV channels are very popular amongst the women viewers of the country, so far no daily soap has been aired in Bangladeshi TV channels targeting the women viewers. Dolls House, a daily soap jointly directed by Afsana Mimi and Badrul Anam Soud, is the first TV serial of its kind that will be
aired on ATN Bangla. Based on Azad Abul Kalam's storyline Chanchal M. Rahman and Tazin Ahmed have written the scripts of the episodes of the daily soap.
Dolls House features the stories of women of different ages and professions and goes beyond their social roles. Starting from today, the daily soap will be aired from Thursday to Sunday every week at 11:30pm on ATN Bangla.
Head of programmes of ATN Bangla Nowajesh Ali Khan at a press conference informed that it was a plan of ATN Bangla to air daily soap targeting the women viewers of the country who basically watch TV channels at noon and again at late night. “Which is why Dolls House will be aired at 11:30 pm and will be repeated at 2:30pm”, said Khan.
One of the directors of the daily soap Afsana Mimi said, “It's really difficult to get four-day chunk. We've got enormous support from Chairman of ATN Bangla, Mahfuzur Rahman. Actors of the play are also very co-operative.”
Disclosing his view Mahfuzur Rahman informed, “It's really pathetic that the women viewers in Bangladesh are very much devoted to the Hindi TV serials. We want that they should watch our programmes. Otherwise, our next generation will follow foreign culture. In future we will encourage these types of initiatives, even bypassing our rules and regulations.”
One of the actors of Dolls House, Subarna Mustafa said, “The serial is challenging but entertaining.”
The star cast includes Subarna Mustafa, Wahida Mallik Jolly, Shampa Reza, Chitralekha Guha, Mita Chowdhury, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Tushar Khan, Intekhab Dinar, Azad Abul Kalam, Traupa Majumder, Farhana Mithu, Bijori Barkatullah and Sanjida Priti.