Sakin Sarisuri , also known as Shakin Sharishuri, is a Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

i telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

 written by Brindabon Das and directed by Salauddin Lavlu

Salauddin Lavlu

Salauddin Lavlu was born on the 27th of August and is Bangladeshi actor, screenwriter and television director. His works generally consist of television films and telenovelas. His productions are usually comedies, and they generally are immensely popular with the Bangladeshi audiences...

. The 106-episode telenovela started airing on Channel i

Channel I

Channel i is a privately owned Television network in Bangladesh. It is owned by the Impress Group, among the largest conglomerates in Bangladesh with interests in textiles, pharmaceuticals and media....

 on January 27, 2009, and has yet to finish.

Plot

The plot centres on a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 called Sarisuri where all the residents are thieves. The village is home to Muslim

Muslim

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s, Hindu

Hindu

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s and Christian

Christian

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s who live in harmony, respecting and celebrating each other's creed

Creed

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 and festivals. The village is virtually isolated from neighbouring areas because of its natives' reputation of being swindler

Charlatan

A charlatan is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, fame or other advantages via some form of pretense or deception....

s. The local administration is well aware of the villagers' "profession" but does not take severe legal actions because there will be political

Politics

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 election

Election

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 soon.

The telenovela advances with a conflict among the villagers when the daughter of the local "mafia godfather

Mafia

The Mafia is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering...

" falls for a young thief.

Cast

• Masum Aziz
• Nazmul Huda Bachchu
• Golam Farida Chhanda
• Chanchal Chowdhury
  Chanchal Chowdhury
  Chanchal Chowdhury was born on the June 1, 1975, in Dhaka and is a Bangladeshi actor and model. Chanchal started his career in 1996 in the theaters of Bangladesh...
  
  
• Azizul Hakim
• Rawnak Hasan
• Wahida Mallik Jolly
• Mosharraf Karim
  Mosharraf Karim
  Mosharraf Karim was born on 22 August 1976 and he is a very talented and popular actor of Bangladesh. Mosharraf is widely known around Bangladesh due to his superb skill in acting, achieving many awards and honours. Mosharraf generally acts more frequently in Dramas and Dramaserials, than in...
  
  
• Salauddin Lavlu
  Salauddin Lavlu
  Salauddin Lavlu was born on the 27th of August and is Bangladeshi actor, screenwriter and television director. His works generally consist of television films and telenovelas. His productions are usually comedies, and they generally are immensely popular with the Bangladeshi audiences...
  
  
• Ahsanul Haque Minu
• Mithi
• Niba Rani
• Mamunur Rashid
• Shanu
• Shikha
• Shimana
• Silvi

Production

The telenovela première

Premiere

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 was held recently in Pubail, Bangladesh, where the telenovela is shot. The director

Television director

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, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, cast and technical crew celebrated the occasion with the locals and they all watched the pilot episode

Television pilot

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 together.
The director is optimistic that — like his previous productions Ronger Manush, Vober Hat

Vober Hat

Vober Hat,Vober Hat is a Bangladesh dramaserial written by Masum Reza and directed by Salauddin Lavlu. The 106-episode TV dramaserial was aired on Channel I and it has a rural setting, depicting colourful lifestyles of a rural village...

and Ghor Kutum — Sakin Sarisuri will also be able generate interest among a wider audience.