Goynar Baksho

Goynar Baksho
Goynar Baksho
	Shrikant Mohta ; Mahendra Soni
Starring	Moushumi Chatterjee ; Konkona Sen Sharma ; Srabanti Chatterjee ; Saswata Chatterjee ; Kaushik Sen
Cinematography	Soumik Haldar
Edited by	Rabiranjan Maitra
Music by	Debojyoti Mishra
Distributed by	Shree Venkatesh Films
Release date	12 April 2013;
Running time	141 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Goynar Baksho (transl. The Jewellery Box) is a 2013

horror comedy film directed by Aparna Sen. The film is based on a novel Goynar Baksho and a short story Rashmonir Sonadana, both written by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay and published in Desh magazine.^[1]^[2]^[3] The film premiered in Kolkata on 12 April 2013.^[4]

Plot

The film revolves around women of three generations and their lives and changing positions in society. And this is shown about a jewelry box.

India, losing their ancestral lands in the process. She spends the remainder of her life, apparently as a chaste widow, hiding her wedding jewels from her greedy relatives in the joint family. In 1949, she befriends the new bride of the family, her niece-in-law (Konkona Sen Sharma

) shortly before dying.

The niece-in-law is visited by the spirit of the matriarch, who demands that she hide the jewelry box from her greedy relatives. Over the years, the family descends into

pawn some of the jewels so that her husband (Saswata Chatterjee) can set up a business, over the objections of the family, selling saris

. The prosperity of the business allows her to buy the jewels back, completing the hidden collection. The niece-in-law discovers that her husband is having an affair, and complains to the ghost of the matriarch. The ghost of the matriarch regales her with a story of a torrid sexual liaison that she had with a laborer when she was alive and young and encourages the niece-in-law to take on a lover of her own. The niece-in-law at first falls in love with the secret lover but later she returns to her husband and gives birth to a girl. The ghost fails to succeed in her endeavor of uniting the niece-in-law and her lover abandons the niece-in-law and begins to visit her daughter, the ghost's grandniece instead.

The final part of the film revolves around the daughter as she grows up (

1971 Bangladesh genocide becomes a backdrop of the film, and one of the rebels is murdered by a Pakistani death squad, following which the ghost of the matriarch advises the daughter to donate the jewels to the cause of the Mukti Bahini

.

Production

Aparna Sen thought to make this film in 1993. But, she was not getting the right production house to finance the film. That's why she had to delay the project so long. Sen told–[2]

When I first read the book way back in 1993, I instantly decided to turn it into celluloid, but the delay was due to not getting the right production house to finance the film. Now finally it is happening.

Cast

Moushumi Chatterjee as Rashmoni / Pishima
Konkona Sen Sharma as Somalata
Srabanti Chatterjee as Chaitali / Young Rashmoni
Saswata Chatterjee as Chandan
Paran Bandopadhyay as Chandan's Father
Aparajita Addya as Chandan's Sister in Law
Pijush Ganguly as Chandan's Elder Brother
Manasi Sinha as Chandan's Mother
Kaushik Sen as Rafiq
Koushik Roy as Banwarilal aka Benu/ Ram Khilawan
Monu Mukhopadhyay as Chandan's Paternal Uncle
Sudipta Chakraborty as Kamala
Pradip Mukherjee as Doctor
Rudraneel Das

Tracklist

Song Name	Singers
"Aamar Sonar Bangla"	Arijit Singh, Samantak, Ipshita
"Bangla Rap"	Paran Bandopadhyay, Saswata Chatterjee, Konkona Sen Sharma, Pijush Ganguly, Moushumi Chatterjee
"Basonar Gaan"	Kaushiki Chakrabarty
"Chandan Kumkum"	Paromita, Ipshita, Sweta, Debolina
"O Boner Dubba Re"	Paromita, Ipshita, Sweta, Debolina
"Ki Ache Goynar Bakshe"	Upal Sengupta
"Nodir Oparey Ghono Kuasha"	Rupankar Bagchi
"Sakhi Ri"	Shubha Mudgal

Awards and nominations

Ceremony	Category	Nominee	Result
Filmfare Awards East	Best Director – Bengali	Aparna Sen	Nominated
	Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female) – Bengali	Konkona Sen Sharma	Won
	Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female) – Bengali	Moushumi Chatterjee	Won
	Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male) – Bengali	Saswata Chatterjee	Nominated

References

^ ^a ^b "The jewellery box". The Telegraph. Kolkata. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Aparna Sen to film "Goynar Baksho"". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
^ "Aparna Sen's next film based on Bengali story Goynar Baksho". First Post.
^ "Aparna Sen's Goynar Baksho Bengali Film Opens with Dazzling Premiere in Kolkata | ওয়াশিংটন বাংলা রেডিও Washington Bangla Radio USA". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2013.

External links

Goynar Baksho at
IMDb

Goynar Baksho at Disney+ Hotstar

[The_jewellery_box-1] "The jewellery box". The Telegraph. Kolkata. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012.

[Aparna_Sen_to_film_"Goynar_Baksho"-2] "Aparna Sen to film "Goynar Baksho"". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012.

[Aparna_Sen’s_next_film_based_on_Bengali_story_Goynar_Baksho-3] "Aparna Sen's next film based on Bengali story Goynar Baksho". First Post.

[4] "Aparna Sen's Goynar Baksho Bengali Film Opens with Dazzling Premiere in Kolkata | ওয়াশিংটন বাংলা রেডিও Washington Bangla Radio USA". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2013.

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