“Aay Tobe Shahochori” A story redefining dreams, passion & friendship!

Ambar Bhattacharya, Takmaa, Kolkata, 10th Sept 2021 : Star Jalsha presents a refreshing story of friendship between two women across generations “Aay Tobe Shohochori”. This new fiction show, scheduled to launch on 13th Sept. 2021,explores the untrodden path of dreams, passion,and friendship. The story revolves around Shohochori Mitra, the lead protagonist, who is a housewife and a mother of a college student herself and how she takes a leap of faith when she decides to pursue her wish of studying further.

We often see middle-aged homemakers losing their importance at home, they get busy taking care of everyone in the family while no one cares for her, at times they even get mocked for their ignorance and most times they lose their friends in the hurry and scurry of life. Shohochori breaks the stereotype and hurdles when she joins college in pursuit of winning a Gold Medal.

It’s in this college that she finds a friend and strength in young Borfi,a first-year student at the same college. Their friendship breaks all stereotypes of how we like to define college friends and will be a fresh breath of air for our audience. This new show is all about exploring, decoding, and reimagining the friendship between middle-aged Shohochori and teenage college girl, Borfi!

The show explores to find out if Shohochori & Borfi’s friendship will thrive to break the societal clichés.

In the role of Shohochori, we will see the famous, and one of Bengal’s favorites, actress Koneenica Banerjee, making a comeback to the small screen. Koneenica has many blockbuster movies and critically acclaimed performances to her credit. The show is being produced, written and directed by Sahana Dutta who has done many blockbuster shows with Star Jalsha like Maa, Durga, Behula, Songshar Sukher Hoy Romonir Guney, Potol Kumar Gaanwalaand Chuni Panna to name a few.

Introducing Arunima in the role of Borfi. She comes across as a strong character adding to the youthfulness, vibrant and energy to the story.

Key Cast members of the show- Koneenica Banerjee as Sohochori, Indrajit Chakravarty as Samaresh, Arunima Halder as Barfi & Indranil Chatterjee as Roudra aka Tipu

This will be the 1st project of Missing Screws Manoranjan Pvt. Ltd owned by Rohit Samanta and Sahana Dutta as producers.

Speaking on the occasion Sahana Dutta Producer, Writer & Creative Director of the show said: “Shohochori is one such story of a woman which will connect with all women who are longing for a friend and have suppressed their passion somewhere in their hearts in their effort to manage family and home. It’s a story of that small little voice within you, me & everyone around us. In this society, where married, middle-aged women are expected to live their lives for their family, Shohochori brings about a new perspective. Shohochori and Barfi redefine this role of women in the society and inspire to make new friends, venture into the world of dreams & passion, love, respect, and friendship. Come let’s support and be part of this new tale of friendship ‘AayTobe Shohochori’. I am glad to be associated with Star Jalsha yet again. The concept of Aay Tobe Shohochori is very close to my heart and I hope that audience of Bengalwill love it and identify with Shohochori’s journey and Barfi’s energy and compassion,”

Speaking on the occasion, Channel Spokesperson said, “At Star Jalsha, we believe in being the change makers of Society. Keeping up to that promise, this fiction show will capture the story redefining & decoding the chemistry of Friendship across Generations between two women. A Story defying the stereotype hurdles of age and marriage in the journey of pursuing friendship, dreams & passion of a Woman. It’s a story of a middle-aged housewife pursuing her dreams to study further and achieve her goals which once seemed distant to her. A story that will motivate Millions and make more women pursue dreams like her. The tonality of the show is very authentic and fresh which has a pertinent message in its core thought which makes the show more relatable for the audience.”

Aay Tobe Shohochori starring Koneenica launching on 13th September, Mon- Sun at 9 pm on Star Jalsha SD & HD Channels. Publicity : Candid Communication.