The cast of CID's Hindi version.
Kolkata:
Targetting regional audiences,India's popular and longest running television crime show CIDhas now been adapted into Bengali.
With a new set of characters and stories influenced bythe rich local culture of Bengal, CID Kolkata Bureau will beshown on Bengali channel Sony 'Aath' from November 12.
"Our viewers are the second highest in Bengal and thismotivated us to bring a local version of the show for theaudiences here," said show's director B P Singh.
"We have to make this show better than the one inHindi otherwise people will not watch it," he told reportershere today.
Started in 1998 with actor Shivaji Satam playing thelead role as ACP Pradyuman, CID has been running successfullyfor the past 15 years on Sony TV making it the small screen'slongest running show.
Singh said he is directing the first few episodes inBengali after which the entire production team will compriselocal people.
The characters are largely prototypes of the Hindiseries but as they are played by Bengali actors, it adds adash of local flavour.
Singh said the Bengali show will remain in whodunnitformat with each story based on seven policemen and a body."We are sticking to the format of the show. Justadding a local flavour, local language and a story set inKolkata," he said.
With a new set of characters and stories influenced bythe rich local culture of Bengal, CID Kolkata Bureau will beshown on Bengali channel Sony 'Aath' from November 12.
"Our viewers are the second highest in Bengal and thismotivated us to bring a local version of the show for theaudiences here," said show's director B P Singh.
"We have to make this show better than the one inHindi otherwise people will not watch it," he told reportershere today.
Started in 1998 with actor Shivaji Satam playing thelead role as ACP Pradyuman, CID has been running successfullyfor the past 15 years on Sony TV making it the small screen'slongest running show.
Singh said he is directing the first few episodes inBengali after which the entire production team will compriselocal people.
The characters are largely prototypes of the Hindiseries but as they are played by Bengali actors, it adds adash of local flavour.
Singh said the Bengali show will remain in whodunnitformat with each story based on seven policemen and a body."We are sticking to the format of the show. Justadding a local flavour, local language and a story set inKolkata," he said.
