Telly soap shooting resumes after 5-day deadlock

Kolkata: A day after the intervention of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Bengali tele-industry has once again plunged into action after an impasse for the past few days.

Banerjee held a meeting with the artistes, producers, technicians and script-writers at Nabanna on Thursday to bring an end to the deadlock. After the meeting, the Chief Minister announced that the work of the tele-industry will resume from Friday morning and a 13-member committee with state Youth Services and Sports minister Aroop Biswas as its Chairman and Soumitra Chatterjee as its Chief Advisor was formed to ensure that immediate steps are taken to solve any problem that might come up in the near future.

The scenario at the studios at Tollygunge was completely different on Friday morning compared to that of the past five days when work remained suspended.

Everyone, starting from artistes to technicians, turned up quite early on Friday to ensure that work can start at the earliest.

The Chief Minister had said during the Press conference after the meeting on Thursday that the Bengali tele-industry has huge prospects for job opportunities. Hence it is all the more important that it functions smoothly.

People involved in the industry welcomed the move of the Chief Minister saying that they are thankful to her as the work in the industry has resumed without any further issues.

"We were waiting anxiously for the day when work will resume after the deadlock. Thanks to our Chief Minister that her intervention brought an end to the problems and we have got the opportunity to come to work from Friday morning," said Mrityunjoy Bhowmick, who works in a studio at Tollygunge.

Everyone was quite enthusiastic to join work after a gap of five days and were even mentally prepared to work for long hours to gift new episodes to the viewers of the Bengali TV serials who are spread far and wide.

It may be mentioned that old episodes of the Bengali TV serials were telecast in different channels as the work in the tele-industry remained suspended.

This happened when people from almost every household are ardent viewers of the tele soaps.