Samia Rahman

Ekushey television made a star out of Samia Zaman. 'To begin with, I was not a newsreader ' says Samia. She joined Ekushey as a News and Current Affairs Editor just when the channel was coming into its own. Just two weeks before going on air, Ekushey was still in a fix about its news anchor. Simon Bring, the man behind it all, asked her to audition for the job. She was an instant hit, and thus ended up as the leading anchorwoman of her times. Before Ekushey, especially the newscaster job; Samia was all set to make her own film. 'I returned from London to concentrate on films.' But perhaps Bangladesh needed Ekushey and the stylish news readers to alter the history of Bangladeshi television news casting. 'Proud as I was to be a part of something that important, my first love kept beckoning me,' she smiles.