From footballer Joyee to auto-rickshaw driver in Tumpa Autowali: Female characters on Bengali TV with offbeat career choices

Gone are the days when the women in TV shows are just confined to the four walls. Besides performing duties towards pati parmeshwar and family, they can run successful business, do a perfect summersault and bend it like Beckham too! Not just a hobby, but they are full time pursuing a successful career in an off-beat field. Keeping a sync with the realistic world, Bengali TV has also showcased some welcoming changes and the career choices made by the reel characters are among those. Rather than choosing conventional career paths, they are shining bright as a gymnast, cricketer or even an auto-rickshaw driver. Pretty soon, Bengali TV will welcome a boxer in upcoming show ‘Phulki’. Here’s a quick look at some of the shows that featured female characters choosing unconventional career paths. (Photo: Facebook)

Who can forget Goyenda Ginni! She was one of the most favourite reel characters on Bengali TV. With intelligence and courage, protagonist Parama, who was otherwise a simple homemaker, used to crack critical cases. The show starred Indrani Halder in the titular role. The show enjoyed such a huge popularity that audiences still urge the channel for another season. Actress Ananya Chatterjee also played a truth seeker in 'Jai Kali Kalkattawali'. (Photo: Facebook)

Actress Nabanita Das played a badminton player in Bengali TV’s yet another all-time popular show ‘Deep Jwele Jai’. It was an instant hit and recently the show was remade in Hindi (Rishton Ka Manjha) too. (Photo: Facebook)

Debadrita Basu and Dibyojyoti Dutta starrer ‘Joyee’ was an instant hit. Bengali viewers simply fell in love with the footballer Bouma who knew how to aim for the goalpost just like she knew how to handle her family. ‘Joyee’ was just a start, pretty soon Bengali TV welcomed female reel characters with offbeat career choices. (Photo: Facebook)

Snehasish Chakraborty’s ‘Jagaddhatri’ is currently ruling the Bengali small screen. Keeping the ‘ronadhona’ aside, protagonist Jass chose to woo the audience with her intelligence and action-packed sequences as a special crime branch officer. Though Bengali TV has seen female detectives, cops, the popularity enjoyed by Jass is worth a mention. Ankita Mallick is essaying the titular role in the show. (Photo: Facebook)

Khukumoni was no doubt a unique character. She ran a home delivery service, took care of poor people in her neighbourhood, tackled the goons and became the saviour of a deprived guy. The show featured Dipanwita Rakshit as Khukumoni and became popular in a short span of time for Khukumoni’s devil may care attitude and her patent dialogues. (Photo: Facebook)

Taking the tradition of reel characters with offbeat career ahead, the daily soap features protagonist Tumpa who drives an auto. She started driving the auto-rickshaw to help her family after her maternal uncle, who used to drive the vehicle, meets with an accident. But pretty soon, Tumpa takes it up as her full time job and also launches an on-line auto-rickshaw app. (Photo: Facebook)

Recently concluded TV show 'Alta Phoring' narrated the story of a mom and daughter duo. Mom Radharani was a promising athlete who left the profession after getting pregnant by her coach. She leaves the city and starts working as a daily wedge earner only to keep her daughter safe. Her daughter Phoring is also a talented gymnast. How Phoring pursues her goal and fulfils the dream of winning gold medal, formed the major crux of the story. The show was an instant hit Interestingly, Kheyali Mondal, who played Phoring's role is a gymnast in real-life. Bengali TV viewers simply fell in love with a bahu who can handle all the issues at home front, do a perfect summer sault and can win gold medal too. Radharani's character was played by Saoli Chatterjee. (Photo: Facebook)

Meet Bengali TV’s cricketer Bahu Uma. Played by Shinjinee Chakraborty, who is now playing a shape-shifting serpent in ‘Ponchomi’, Umaa narrated the story of a young girl who dreamed to become a cricketer one day. Though the show later took different path and concentrated on Uma’s marital life and her struggle to defeat the antagonist rather than concentrating on 22 yards, ‘Uma’ managed to catch the attention for its topic. (Photo: Facebook)