Apurbo will be seen in the role of a single parent in the telefilm “Megh Maa” which will air on Maasranga TV tonight at 8pm. The play addresses the responsibility and stress attached to single parenthood, especially with a man on the pedestal. Written by Masum Reza and directed by S A Haque Olik, the telefim also features Bindu as the lead female.
Dhaka Tribune caught up with Apurbo to learn about his take on single parenting and the actor said: “‘Megh Maa’ is one of my favourite fictional stories. Roles like this do not come our way very often and the little girl who played my daughter did an amazing job in bringing out the father in me.”
In real life, Apurba is expecting his first child this very month and the excited to be father requested his fans and well wishers to pray for the safe birth of his child.
About his notions on parenting, Apurbo said: “As a father I’ll try to provide my child with the very best that I can afford not only in monetary terms but also in terms of ethics, decency and virtue.”
In the telefilms “Megh Maa,” Auntu lost her mother at birth and is raised by her father alone. Apurbo works in a multinational corporation and has limited time to spend with his daughter who has an active imagination. They move into a new apartment where Bindu is their neighbour. She is a lecturer at a private university and seeing the little girl’s melancholic state, she starts spending time with Auntu whenever she is home from work. One day, Auntu calls Bindu “Megh Maa” much to the irritation of her father. He forbids Auntu to address Bindu by the name and scolds her when she refuses to do so. When Apurbo senses that the situation is getting out of hand, he moves to a new area with his daughter in tow.
In the mean time, Bindu starts missing Auntu terribly and realises that she has forged a stronger bond with the little girl than mere sympathy for her motherless state. She becomes desperate and starts to have hallucinations of Auntu calling her, standing outside her door and the figment of her imagination muster up many more images of the little girl.