The second wave of the Covid-19 induced lockdowns has forced people to stay indoors once again. And in order to help people adjust and laugh during this pandemic, Reeldrama is streaming Haahit Petor Bikh.
Haahit Petor Bikh is an Assamese stand-up comedy series on the OTT platform Reeldrama. Kenny Basumatary of Local Kungfu fame is directing the series. And the show has comic pieces by veterans like Rajib Kro and Dr Anjan Jyoti Choudhury, and young comedians like Saju Ahmed and Tamak Ranjan Dutta.
This standup comedy idea was contemplated and introduced by the OTT platform . The creative team at Reeldrama, along with the director and executive producer of the comedy show, took part in several brainstorming sessions discussing its feasibility and success probability, while coming up with the funny entertaining series.
Sharing his experience during the shoot, director Kenny Basumatary said: “We asked some of our friends to come over as audience and we were all laughing throughout the shoot. And our stomachs were literally aching from laughing by the end of the day. We hope that the show will have the same reaction .”
Executive producer, Anupam Baishya added that a stand-up comedy show is very new to Assamese audiences. “We have seen skits, mimicry shows etc in Assamese but solo comedy performances on screen are very rare. We really had a tough time to find and get artists on board. But once they were in, we successfully got a total of 32 fantastic episodes of laughter riot. We asked all the artists to transform their life experiences into scripts and thus created this unique show in terms of content ” he said.
