The name itself spells quirk. The YouTube channel Uribaba, a brainchild of Sourav Chakraborty and Amit Bose, aims to become a platform that looks to discover and promote promising talent from Bengal. “When we formed Trickster-Span and started making web series, our motto was to create fresh interesting visual palettes that would give rise to novel organic content. Two people who stayed with us were Naresh Kheterpal and Sanjeev Dhirani, two personalities with a strong Bengali essence and a keen interest in the flavour of Bengali arts and talent. We have been making different kinds of audio-visuals and we have been gaining experience. Since our genesis, a lot of young people have been approaching us with different concepts. These would excite me and Ishita. Suddenly, it increased substantially in the pandemic. The applicants included directors, story writers, music directors of all shapes. We connected emotionally and felt so eager to work with them. Amitda and I discussed this at length and this led to the genesis of an idea to form an independent channel where we could showcase all their talents,” said Sourav Chakraborty.

“Uribaba started as an effort to create new content and showcase the talent of Bengal. To add to this, there is no need for any monthly subscription. Be it 5MM On The Rock directed by Sourav, which highlights Bengal’s music or Pradipta Bhattacharyya’s Birohi that depicts a story based in rural Bengal, the focus has always been on innovative content… we have also decided to reach out to viewers through an app in the future,” said Amit Bose. Here are a few upcoming projects from Uribaba....

5MM on the Rock
Life’s music. Music’s life. Melody meets memories, songs walk hand-in-hand with stories. Music has never been so much ‘fun’. It is all about Bengal pouring out its soul.

Director: Sourav Chakraborty

Artistes: Anupam Roy, Piya Chakraborty, Shilajit Majumdar, Dhee, Sattwik Biswas and Prajna

Duarey Bouma
A new guest arrives in broad daylight — the son’s lover and the mother-in-law’s daughter-in-law. And then? What follows in the web series goes far beyond the typical saas-bahu routine, and culminate in a surprise ending.

Director: Sanjay and Srirupa

Cast: Rajdeep Gupta, Sourabh Paladhi, Tanyaradzwa Kunguma, Suchandra, Brishti Roy

Birohi
The village is called Birohi. And the newest recruit in the only school there is Krishna, who is recently heartbroken. This is rural Bengal’s very own thriller concerning Birohi, the village and the journeys that make up the lives of the people living there.

Director: Pradipta Bhattacharyya

Cast: Sayan Ghosh, Satakshi Nandy, Anuradha Mukherjee, Amit Saha, Srabanti Bhattacharya, Dipak Halder

Meeting Maashi
The argumentative Bengali will forever be awake. So Meeting Maashi is here to stir up storms in your teacup. From Castro to communism… all will be revealed in Meeting Maashi.