‘Magic Bauliana 2025 Season 5’ has started again on Maasranga Television, under the initiative of Sun Foundation and sponsored by Square Toiletries Limited, in search of new talent in Bengali folk music.
The Sun Foundation started its journey to ensure that the tradition and culture of folk music is unbroken and to create a proper archive for future generations, as well as to stand by the artists, ensure their proper evaluation, and ensure the rights and royalties of the songs. Since its inception, the Sun Foundation has been working to promote Bangla folk music. This year’s Magic Bauliana 2025 has started in continuation of that.
More than 38,000 competitors from all over the country have registered for this year’s fifth edition as of August 22.
The Chittagong audition round was held on September 5 at Bangladesh Tourism Corporation, Chittagong.
Numerous contestants participated throughout the day, enthralling the Bangladesh Tourism Corporation Chittagong premises with their Baul songs. The judges were Kamruzzaman Rabbi, Sandipan, Lovely Dev, KhairulWasi, Ayesha ZebinDeepa and Kalyani Ghosh.
After analyzing the songs, melodies, rhythm, presentation, and mannerisms of all the contestants, the judges awarded magic cards to 4 artists from the audition and selection rounds to come to Dhaka. Thus, a total of 40 contestants from all over the country will participate in the mega selection round in Dhaka.
