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Goynar Baksho is a film of genre Drama directed by Aparna Sen with Konkona Sen Sharma
Goynar Baksho (2013)
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Add to a movie listGoynar Baksho (English: The Jewellery Box) is a 2013 Bengali language Indian 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. The film premiered in Kolkata on 12 April 2013
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The film revolved around women of three generations and their lives and changing position in society. And this is shown in relation to a jewellery box. The lead character is the matriarch of a Bengali Hindu family (Moushumi Chatterjee) of landed gentry in East Bengal. She was married off in an arranged marriage at age 11, and widowed shortly thereafter. The story of the film revolves around her wedding jewels, which she keeps sequestered in a box. After becoming a victim of ethnic cleansing during the partition of India, her family moves to the Republic of India from East Pakistan, 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.Actors
Konkona Sen Sharma
(Somlata)
Moushumi Chatterjee
(Pishima / Rashmoni)
Srabanti Chatterjee
(Chaitali / Young Rashmoni)
Saswata Chatterjee
(Choto Pola)
Paran Bandopadhyay
(Chandan's Father)
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