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Sunday Suspense is a popular Bengali audio story adaptation series that airs on and is hosted by Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM Kolkata team. It features thrilling adaptations of classic and modern adventurous, horror, detective, supernatural and mystery stories, largely from Bengali literature. The show is well-known for its immersive sound design, voice acting, and gripping storytelling. The series offers the audience an opportunity to experience literature through compelling performances, making timeless stories accessible to a modern audience.
History
[edit]It started in June 2009 when a group from the Radio Mirchi Kolkata team came up with a fresh and distinctive idea to produce a programme to read acclaimed and appealing Bengali story texts on air. As per the then incumbent director[1], Ms. Indrani Chakrabarti, who was a crucial person in envisioning the program and was in charge of it, wanted to take up a project of book reading and popularise it among people. Among other people were Mir, Deep, and Richard. Due to financial, administrative and practical barriers, as opposed to doing a radio theatre (like the program “Shanibarer Baarbela” on Akashvani), they planned to do the storytelling albeit with a musical treatment, lending it a cinematic experience. [2]
The initial episode set off with the story “Septopus-er Khidey” by Satyajit Ray on 28 June 2009 (Sunday) at 12 PM IST. Every new episode used to premier at the same time each Sunday. In the beginning the programme used to go live at 12 PM IST on the Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM Kolkata station and was repeated on the same frequency at that night 11 PM and next Saturday at 4:30 PM. After earning acclaim, audio CDs of the stories were released. With the mainstreaming of digitalisation, the episodes are also dropped on YouTube from their Mirchi Bangla channel [3]. At present the episodes are available on platforms like Spotify, Apple Podcasts and JioSaavn as well.
In the beginning, the focus was mainly on the short stories of Satyajit Ray who is famous in Bengali literature for his visual story writing and content that common Bengali people especially children can relate to. Gradually works of Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Premendra Mitra, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Narayan Gangopadhyay, Hemendra Kumar Roy, Syed Mustafa Siraj, Harinarayan Chattopadhyay and other legendary and new Bengali authors made a significant part of the broadcast. Works of famous writers like Arthur Conan Doyle (for his Sherlock Holmes stories), Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexandre Dumas, H.P. Lovecraft also found their way into the series, in their translated form.
Appearances
[edit]The storytelling is primarily voiced by Mir, Deep, and other RJ’s of Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM Kolkata Station. However, occasionally famous voice artists like Jagannath Basu, Urmimala Basu and movie actors like Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Paran Bandopadhyay, Anirban Bhattacharya, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Sudipta Chakraborty, Aparajita Adhya, Srilekha Mitra have appeared on various episodes lending their voices to characters in the stories.
Reception
[edit]Over time, the show has grown a massive fanbase among its audience. It has developed a particular segment of audio production of stories which has inspired many other YouTube channels in Bengali.
References
[edit]- ^ Mirchi Bangla (2022-05-04). #CholoBoshaJaak | চলো বসা যাক Episode 13 | Mirchi Somak & Indrani Chakrabarti. Retrieved 2025-03-16 – via YouTube.
- ^ Mirchi Bangla (2025-01-29). Sunday Suspense | 15 Years Celebration | Mirchi Bangla. Retrieved 2025-03-16 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Mirchi Bangla". YouTube. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
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