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Anirban Chakrabarti, along with Suhotra Mukhopadhyay and Shomak Ghosh, will soon be back as Eken Babu, Bapi, and Promotho.
Last Updated: 07.40 PM, Jul 20, 2024
Eken Babu fans, cheer up. Anirban Chakrabarti, along with Suhotra Mukhopadhyay and Shomak Ghosh, will soon be back as the quirky Bengali detective, Bapi and Promotho. Instead of the film, it will be a web series this time. Joydeep Mukherjee will direct based on the literary work of novelist Sujan Dasgupta. Padmanabha Dasgupta has been working on the script.
In 2022 and 2023, Eken Babu appeared on the big screen on Poila Boishakh – the first day on the Bengali calendar. This year, it was speculated that Eken Babu might give Poila Boishakh a miss and come as a bigger project in Puja. In fact, the muhurat took place last year. The film was scheduled to be shot in Russia as the story delves into that area. However, the film production team could not cut through the red tape of shooting in Russia. So they decided to start preparing for the web series. The new series may get dropped during the winter holidays this year.
As per sources, the shooting of the new series may start in September. Anirban, Suhotra, and Shomak will play the lead. The rest of the actors are yet to be decided. This time, the story is based on Nrityashilpir Mrityutadante Ekenbabu. The shooting is scheduled to take place in Bhubaneswar and Puri in Odisha. Tuban will work as DOP and Shubhadeep Guha will compose the music for the show.
It has been a while since we last saw Eken Babu – Tungkulung-e Eken – on screen. Season seven was dropped last year in December. Ekenbabu is arguably one of the most successful web shows in Bengal. It is the only show to have seven seasons. Ekenbabu started in 2018. Acclaimed actor Anirban shot to fame with this character. Initially, it was Shoumo Banerjee who played Bapi and Bubble, Promotho. Suhotro and Somak took over since the first film, The Eken.