Bishaash
| Bishaash | |
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| Genre | Supernatural drama, adventure, fantasy, detective, mystery |
| Written by | Ilora Choudhury (3 episodes) Selim Gias Uddin (23 episodes) Jo Ho (6 episodes) Farhana Islam (2 episodes) Waris Islam (7 episodes) Aditya Kabir (1 episode) Rayhan Rahman (4 episodes) Ben Teasdale (4 episodes) |
| Directed by | Waris Islam (9 episodes) Sameer Ahmed (6 episodes) Indra Bhose (5 episodes) Selim Gias Uddin (4 episodes) |
| Starring |
Shama Rahman Babu Md. Shaidul Islam Molla Arabi Rahman Rahmat Ali |
| Narrated by | Asaduzzaman Noor |
| Theme music composer | Stephen Murphy |
| Country of origin | Bangladesh |
| Original language(s) | Bengali English |
| No. of episodes | 24 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Mary Hare Rishi Sankar |
| Location(s) |
Dhaka, Bangladesh London, United Kingdom |
| Cinematography | Roger Bonnici (8 episodes) Rashed Zaman (1 episode) |
| Editor(s) | Iqbal Kabir Joel (10 episodes) Donny Boocock (5 episodes) Georgis Bashar (3 episodes) |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production company(s) | BBC World Service Trust |
| Release | |
| First shown in | 16 October 2010 – 18 March 2011 (Bangladesh) |
| Original release | 6 March – 14 July 2011 (United Kingdom) |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | BBC Janala Mojay Mojay Shekha |
| External links | |
| Production website |
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Bishaash (Bengali: বিশ্বাস; English: Belief) is a 24-part Bangladeshi supernatural drama adventure fantasy detective mystery television series produced by BBC World Service Trust which was first broadcast on Bangladesh Television from 16 October 2010 until 18 March 2011.
The series stars Shama Rahman, Babu Md. Shaidul Islam Molla, Arabi Rahman and Rahmat Ali. It is about British Bangladeshi woman Zara who relocates to Bangladesh after discovering she has inherited a family stake in a mysterious detective agency based in Dhaka where she meets supernatural investigator Abir and discovers a world of adventure.
Zara Rahman (Shama Rahman), a young, head-strong, inquisitive British woman of Bangladeshi origin discovers she has inherited co-ownership of an antique shop in Dhaka after the death of her grandfather. Determined to find out more, she packs up her life in London and travels to Bangladesh. She finds out the shop is also home to a team of detectives with supernatural powers and meets young supernatural investigator Abir Zaman (Babu Md. Shaidul Islam Molla) and is thrown into his world of supernatural mystery, magic and adventure.
Bishaash is south Asia's first ever supernatural detective series. and the first ever serial drama shot between Bangladesh and London, England. There are 24 paired episodes, each lasting 25 minutes.
The series features dialogue in Bengali and English, with most of the speech in Bangla to attract a mainstream audience, it also includes functional English lines. Initially all of the dialogue in the series is in Bangla, but with English subtitles. However, episode by episode, more and more English dialogue is introduced.
The series was part of Mott MacDonald's £50 million nine-year programme since 2007 aimed at teaching many of the poorest people in Bangladesh what project director John Shotton describes as "vocational English". One of their project partners is broadcaster BBC World Service. The series was made by the BBC World Service Trust for audiences in Bangladesh. The drama had a partner programme BBC Janala Mojay Mojay Shekha (BBC Window Learning with Fun), an educational game show which builds on the English used in the drama in order to help teach the language.
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