Television of Creativity

Abdullah Al Mamun

The name “Abdullah Al Mamun” comes first if it has been asked for the names of star producers at television. He has been keeping himself involved with the television production since 1966. Though during the time he has made full-length films such as; “Shareng Bou”, “Ekhoni Shomoy”, “Dui Jibon”, etc but never has kept himself away from mini screen.

The name “Abdullah” is not that much popular in here but earlier there were three producers at Bangladesh Television whose names were “Adbullah”. Beside Abdullah Al Mamun there were two more producers named Abdullah Yusuf Imam and Badrunnersa Abdullah.
Abdullah Al Mamun used to work at Dainik Shongbad when the television has come first in this country. Besides that he was also involved with stage drama. He was so much close to stage drama that he believed no other media for drama can be created without stage though dramas were used to be telecasted regularly at that time from Dhaka Betar Kendra. Abdulla Al Mamun used to take part in those dramas. But that was only due to passing his time and earning money. And the matter of film had not been cleared to Abdullah Al Mamun yet. At that time Abdullah Al Mamun used to work at the news section of Dainik Shongbad. That is why in most of time he had to work at night shift.

Golam Sarwar

On a night at Shongbad office it has been seen that an elevated table was being set up in Abdullah Al Mamun's working place. Office of a newspaper means the rooms which are full of newspapers roll. Those newspapers are being used to wrap the snacks, tissue papers. In such office a peon is making the table carefully – the matter is so eye catchy. At that time the only machine in the newspaper office was the teleprinter. News are coming with a weird sound. And on the other side there was a huge table.

In such time a four legged table has been set into a huge box. There was a screen of glass over the box. Before that a wire has been connected from outside with the box. Then it has been seen that a silver colored thing has been set upon the office. Abdullah Al Mamun and all the people those were presented at the newsroom got to know that the name of the box is television set. All of them knew due to working in newspaper that the test transmission of television has been started from Dhaka's DIT Bhaban. The television programs are being seen the by the people who are staying within the 10 miles distance from DIT Bhaban. The administration of television is giving NEC branded television sets to all the newspapers' offices in Dhaka. The newsroom becomes full with crowd at the time of the initiation of any television program. Black and white pictures are being shown in the screen. It gets everyone's attention. Even Abdullah Al Mamun was not an exception. At that time the programs used to be telecasted till 9:30 PM. At 9:30 PM Mamun bhai has noticed that he has become addicted to television screen and even all of the employees of the newspaper's office have become busy with gossips regarding television programs instead of their works. At that time the colleague of Abdullah Al Mamun was today's Daily Jugantor's editor Golam Sarwar. He asked Mamun bhai to write in the literature section about this drama since television things have become more dramatic.
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The writer is Managing Director, Channel i
Translated by Imtiaz Salim