The days of BBC Janala Mojay Mojay Shekha

Social media's existence brought the 1900s to us alive and fresh in the forms of reels, YouTube shorts, photographs, memes and whatnot. Practically, the bringing back forced our brains to pound over nostalgia again and again, and each time, the blasts from the past hit differently. Although the shows of BTVs are not exactly too old to date back to the early 1900s, they are relatively older compared to the life span of the Alpha generation (2010-2024), consisting of young school-going children.

IMDb rated BTV's hit show BBC Janala Mojay Mojay Shekha an impressive 8.3 on a scale of 10, commendably so for a locally targeted education-centred production aimed to inspire Bangladeshi learners to embrace English as a medium of communication in their day-to-day activities.

Paddling back to 2012, the rate of regular users who use English as a medium of day-to-day communication and as a second language was relatively lower than today's time.

Thanks to the spread of social media reels, YouTube content, and online courses, English is now more popular than ever in Bangladesh. BBC Janala Mojay Mojay Shekha, or in formal English BBC Window Learning with Fun, was a hit show that inspired many young and old learners to take a shot at the tedious work of learning a new language but in a fun process.

The stardom of the show struck higher with the help of the combination of three completely different personalities as the show's starring characters: Lux Channel I Star Rumana Malik Munmun, Alexandra Tyers, and Kamal Bayazid.

The reason behind the success and suitability of the production extends to the facts, such as it was more of a game show than a course for learning a doughty, foreign tongue.

The show's starring component, Kamal Bayazid's character, often played a Bengali who was a bit struggling to hit the mark with his teacher, Alexandra Tyers.

Later on, the moment when some lesson activities would finish, some fun quiz or game activity that involved processing meaningful words in English or terming appropriately and building a grammatically correct sentence.

Comedy sketches, a consistent part of the show, kept boredom at bay. The contestants took part in the quizzing, games, guessing, pop-ups, and character-playing.

The contents, separately, would be bursty and last for a short amount of time. The trick of not lengthening the show with one category of lesson or activity and bringing in discrepant categories within the show's airing, a tactic that the cyber's most engaging tutorial-makers follow, helped to keep the audience engaged with the materials the show provided.

It was a breath of fresh air in the clamour of heavy and tedious textbooks to learn about English grammar and read English content that one could enjoy while having a cup of tea and biscuits.

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