About Aaj Robibar
Aaj Robibar is a classic Bangladeshi comedy-drama serial written by the celebrated novelist and dramatist Humayun Ahmed and broadcast on BTV. Set almost entirely inside one rambling household, it follows an eccentric extended family ruled by a stubborn, rule-loving patriarch known simply as Dadajan. The show turns the ordinary friction of a joint family - meals, money, marriage prospects, petty quarrels - into gentle, absurd comedy. Its title, which translates to Today Is Sunday, captures the lazy, anything-can-happen mood of a household where the smallest event becomes a full-blown drama.
Around Dadajan orbit his oddball sons, two sharp-tongued granddaughters, a quietly chaotic boarder named Anis, and a manservant, Moti, whose logic is all his own. Humayun Ahmed builds humor not from big plot twists but from character: the way each person clings to a private obsession, the deadpan dialogue, and the running gags that escalate until the whole house is in uproar. Beneath the laughter runs a warm, melancholy current about loneliness, aging, and the small kindnesses that hold a family together.
Though it ran only a handful of episodes, Aaj Robibar became one of the most beloved sitcoms of 1990s Bangladesh. Its lines entered everyday speech as catchphrases, and its cast - led by Zahid Hasan, Abul Hayat, Abul Khair, Suborna Mustafa and Asaduzzaman Noor - is remembered as a who's-who of Bangladeshi television. Decades later the serial is still rewatched online and was even re-dubbed in Hindi for Indian audiences, confirming its status as a cornerstone of Bangla TV comedy.
