February 26, 2026 12:23 am (IST)
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Bengali TV soap on rape-murder in rural hamlet aims to raise social conscience
Kolkata, Jan 24 (IBNS) In a documentation-fictional mix of the 1980s rural Bengal, when mobile phones and satellite television were alien words and the society would have shown more alacrity in crimes against woman, a new TV soap will capture a short story by popular Bengali writer Prafulla Roy.
The soap "Daay Dayitwa" in the series Ek Masher Galpo (One Month's Story) is being telecast on Akash Anth in 'Sahityer Sera Samay' slot for a month in 26 episodes.
'Daay Dayitwa', which stars a host of small screen stars from Sougata Banerjee to Aparna and Sahamita Acharya and Ardhendu Chatterjee, is about the gangrape-murder of a girl in a remote village and how the young son of a widely revered teacher witnesses the crime and brings the criminals to book with the help of a conscientious local police investigator who is also the student of the teacher.
Says Sougata during an on-location interview, "My character commits a rather abnormal act of coming to the aid of the fatally injured girl on seeing her being gang raped as the usual practice is to look the other way and none wants to get into trouble in the present day."
Director Arindam Basu says, the story captures the socio-political situation of the mid-80s in Bengal though no political party or incident is referred directly and how women were increasingly stepping out of their homes and again faced security threats. "We have weaved a fictional script tweaking Prafulla Roy's famous work a bit in the backdrop of that era. So we may call it a period soap."
Aparna, whose character faces torture, says the purpose of this soap is to give a big jolt to people, that they should come out of stupor and protest in the face of crimes.
"As women we feel the story has social relevance even in this age with incidents of heinous crime reported against women," Aparna and the other girl in the serial Sahamita Acharya say.
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