I have not read the original novel... So cant comment on the adapted screenplay.. However when I watched the movie from the audience point of view I experienced people laughing and having a nice time on a Sunday evening... A movie for family to watch and think less because when you start thinking about the movie it will not be captured in your mind... The first reason is the length of the film that has been unnecessarily stretched... Repeated scenes and a flat middle half of the film...
Goynar Barsho(The Jewellery Box) is a story of the three generations of females and their lives and their struggle surrounding the Jewelery box that belonged to the eldest... The story starts with the first generation where the bride turns to a widow within one year of her marriage... she survived in the family due to the jewelery she carried with her in a box which she is not ready to give to anyone... she counts and wears the jewelery everyday... Soon her brother's son gets married and the new bride comes to the house(Konkona Sen Sharma), within few days the widow dies and gives the jewelery box to Konkona to hide it somewhere and not to use it herself... However the widow appears as a ghost in front of Konkona every time to make sure that her jewelery is safe and she is not using it or giving it to anyone... The widow's ghost goes to extremes to save the jewelery by paralyzing the elder bride in the house so that she cannot tell anybody else in the house where the jewelery box is... In the backdrop it is shown that the economic condition of the house is dropping and Konkona had to keep one item of jewelery in custody to give some amount to her husband to start a business.. The widow's ghost was furious at the beginning but eventually calms down when the business prospers and Konkona releases the item from custody.... Time goes by nd even our ghost is interested in the business because the name of the shop represents her name... This is where the movie goes flat... Later Konkona has a daughter who looks like the old widow... Her daughter grows up and now the ghost appears only to her... Her daughter joins the Bangladesh independence movement where she discovers the secret lover of her mother who has written poems for her mother and has committed suicide.... The film ends with one of his written poems... Where is the jewelery box???????? Konkona's daughter took all the jewelery... Film ends...
More than 2 hrs 15 minutes runtime... most of which was flat and lacked pace... Aparna sen(Director) tried to show everything in 2 hours... Starting from Independence of India and Bangladesh... Extra martial affair... A women's unsatisfied sex life... freedom movement... All these can be covered in a 200 pages novel, not a 2 hrs movie... The positives of the movie is the good camera work portraying the old Bengal and the rural Zamindar House.. The good cinematography and the mind blowing performance of Konkona Sen Sharma who proves that good acting can hold a film together... Other performances were also up to the mark... All in all a movie to go with your family to know how your ancestors were and how the generation changed... STATUTORY WARNING: NON BENGALIS MAY FIND THE LANGUAGE A BIT TOUGHT TO UNDERSTAND....
Goynar Barsho(The Jewellery Box) is a story of the three generations of females and their lives and their struggle surrounding the Jewelery box that belonged to the eldest... The story starts with the first generation where the bride turns to a widow within one year of her marriage... she survived in the family due to the jewelery she carried with her in a box which she is not ready to give to anyone... she counts and wears the jewelery everyday... Soon her brother's son gets married and the new bride comes to the house(Konkona Sen Sharma), within few days the widow dies and gives the jewelery box to Konkona to hide it somewhere and not to use it herself... However the widow appears as a ghost in front of Konkona every time to make sure that her jewelery is safe and she is not using it or giving it to anyone... The widow's ghost goes to extremes to save the jewelery by paralyzing the elder bride in the house so that she cannot tell anybody else in the house where the jewelery box is... In the backdrop it is shown that the economic condition of the house is dropping and Konkona had to keep one item of jewelery in custody to give some amount to her husband to start a business.. The widow's ghost was furious at the beginning but eventually calms down when the business prospers and Konkona releases the item from custody.... Time goes by nd even our ghost is interested in the business because the name of the shop represents her name... This is where the movie goes flat... Later Konkona has a daughter who looks like the old widow... Her daughter grows up and now the ghost appears only to her... Her daughter joins the Bangladesh independence movement where she discovers the secret lover of her mother who has written poems for her mother and has committed suicide.... The film ends with one of his written poems... Where is the jewelery box???????? Konkona's daughter took all the jewelery... Film ends...
More than 2 hrs 15 minutes runtime... most of which was flat and lacked pace... Aparna sen(Director) tried to show everything in 2 hours... Starting from Independence of India and Bangladesh... Extra martial affair... A women's unsatisfied sex life... freedom movement... All these can be covered in a 200 pages novel, not a 2 hrs movie... The positives of the movie is the good camera work portraying the old Bengal and the rural Zamindar House.. The good cinematography and the mind blowing performance of Konkona Sen Sharma who proves that good acting can hold a film together... Other performances were also up to the mark... All in all a movie to go with your family to know how your ancestors were and how the generation changed... STATUTORY WARNING: NON BENGALIS MAY FIND THE LANGUAGE A BIT TOUGHT TO UNDERSTAND....