Prashun Banerjee, Ashok Viswanathan, Madhumanti stormed Zee Bangla Didi No. 1 Program.

On 13th February, 2013, Rachana Banerjee called up renowned couples of Bengal in the Zee Bangla Didi No. 1 Program. The persons who came included All India Radio Employees Urmimala Basu and Jogonnath Basu, footballers Prashun Banerjee and his wife, footballer Goutam Sarkar and his wife and film director Ashok Viswanathan and his wife Madhumanti. Prashun Banerjee is the brother of famous footballer Pradip Banerjee also known as PK Banerjee. Significantly when Prashun Banerjee played in Mohunbagan Club, his friend Goutam Sarkar also played in Mohunbagan Club. All these personalities are very well known in Bengal. In the first round Rachana Banerjee asked the celebrities to put garlands on their wives. When Prashun Banerjee was asked by most notable moment of his life before Valentine’s Day, he said when his daughter was born it was the most notable moment, when he named her Prerona and when his son was born he named him Platini. Singer Indranil Sen came in the second round and asked the celebrities to sing songs on themes. Madhumanti sang the song “tumi je amar”. Indranil Sen sang SD Burman’s song “barne gandhe chande gitite” very well. Goutam Sarkar said he respected the footballers Prashun Banerjee and Samaresh Choudhury very much. In the third round, Madhumanti was asked to act out the character of the woman who ties hairs also works outside in office. Her husband Ashok Vishwanathan identified the idiom which she played. Urmimala Basu and Jagannath Basu did a small srutinatak. They conversed the character of a deaf person who never understood the words of the other speaker. Madhumanti and Ashok Viswanathan won the championship and Madhumanti played the rapid fire round and answered all the 5 questions in a row to become Didi No. 1 and win all the prizes available. Rachana Banerjee anchored the program before Valentine’s day very well.

Madhumanti and Indrani Dutta stormed Zee Bangla Banglar Sera Poribar.

Madhumanti and Indrani Dutta stormed Zee Bangla Banglar Sera Poribar.

Madhumanti and Indrani Dutta stormed Zee Bangla Banglar Sera Poribar on 27^th October, 2012. Madhumanti had married Ashok Biswanathan, the son of eminent actor N. Biswanathan. She had been successful as a news reader in man Bengali channels.

Indrani Dutta had been successful Bengali actress in many Bengali films. She had acted with even Prasenjit Chatterjee. In the first round, that is katakuti round Prasenjit Chatterjee asked Madhumanti questions relating to Bengali cinema.

A scene of Bengali cinema Chaddabeshi was shown. The scene was related to Bikash Roy’s testing of Uttam Kumar regarding his under knowledge of Bengali language. The question was what was the name with which Bikash Roy called Uttam Kumar. Madhumanti gave wrong answer. The correct answer was Bhajahari. The actual name of Uttam Kumar in the film was Gourhari.

Another scene was shown from the bollywood film Munnabhai MBBS. In that film a scene was shown where Sanjay Dutt was speaking with Boman Irani. Boman Irani asked Sanjay Dutt whether he did meet his daughter. The question was how many times the name of his daughter was uttered. The answer would have been 2 times. Indrani Dutta gave the right answer.

Both Indrani Dutta’s family and Madhumanti’s family did well in the Bong Anubad round and the other rounds. Prasenjit Chatterjee anchored the program very well.