Voice modulations and foley sounds are added to create the theatre of the mind experience.
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Radio Mirchi Chander Pahar All Epdes Series Of Playsįor instance Aao, one of author Saadat Hasan Mantos most famous series of plays, was written for radio.īut the creators of Sunday Suspense dont want to categorise the show as an audio drama. The show has bridged this gap and has helped connect the new generation to Bengali literature.įrom the 1920s till video took over, radio kept playwrights busy, and several original works were written keeping audio presentation in mind. We have received positive feedback from Bengali families living in other states of India as well as in other countries, whose children dont have the opportunity to read gems of Bengali literature like Satyajit Ray or Saradindu Bandyopadhyay or Nihar Ranjan Gupta, because they have not been taught Bangla in school, said Ali. The episodes have been archived on the radio stations YouTube channel, making it a treasure trove of Bengali literature. The Sunday afternoon show has also featured the translated works of authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe, Graham Greene and Ray Bradbury. There have been close to 500 such episodes since the show went on air in 2009. Sunday Suspense involves a dramatised reading of Bengali classics, usually from the horror and crime genre. He was reading out a story written by legendary filmmaker and writer Satyajit Ray on Sunday Suspense, a long-running radio show on Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM in Kolkata. The baritone belonged to popular radio personality Mir Afsar Ali. If this is what Bengali literature needs to survive, then so be it, pronounced Bhattacharya, soon after the voice fell silent. Nothing moved except the flame of a candle, flickering in a corner, as they listened to the oral rendition of a popular Bengali suspense story, liberally interspersed with chilling sound effects that added to its drama.