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{{Infobox film
| name = Goynar Baksho
| image = [[File:Goynar_Baksho_movie_poster.jpg|215px]]
| alt = Goynar Baksho movie poster
| caption = Movie poster
| director = [[Aparna Sen]]
| producer = [[Shrikant Mohta]] [[Mahendra Soni]]
| writer = [[Aparna Sen]]
| based_on = ''Goynar Baksho'' and ''Rashmonir Sonadana'' by [[Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay]]
| starring = [[Moushumi Chatterjee]] [[Konkona Sen Sharma]] [[Srabanti Chatterjee]] [[Saswata Chatterjee]] [[Kaushik Sen]]
| music = [[Debojyoti Mishra]]
| cinematography = Soumik Haldar
| editing = [[Rabiranjan Maitra]]
| studio =
| distributor = [[Shree Venkatesh Films]]
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2013|04|12}}
| runtime = 141 minutes
| country = India
| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Goynar Baksho''''' ({{translation}} ''The Jewellery Box'') is a 2013 Indian [[Bengali language|Bengali]]-language [[Supernatural film|supernatural]] [[Comedy horror|comedy horror 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)|Desh]]'' magazine.<ref name="The jewellery box">{{cite news|title=The jewellery box|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120718/jsp/entertainment/story_15739069.jsp#.UJ442Wdqkoo|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204021512/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120718/jsp/entertainment/story_15739069.jsp%23.UJ442Wdqkoo|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 February 2013|access-date=10 November 2012|work=The Telegraph|location=Kolkata}}</ref><ref name='Aparna Sen to film "Goynar Baksho"'>{{cite news|title=Aparna Sen to film "Goynar Baksho"|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/Aparna-Sen-to-film-Goynar-Baksho/articleshow/15324905.cms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509194316/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-08-02/news-interviews/33000466_1_filmmaker-aparna-sen-production-house-konkona-sen-sharma|url-status=live|archive-date=9 May 2013|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=10 November 2012}}</ref><ref name="Aparna Sen’s next film based on Bengali story Goynar Baksho">{{cite news|title=Aparna Sen's next film based on Bengali story Goynar Baksho|url=http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/aparna-sens-next-film-based-on-shirshendu-mukhopadhyays-goynar-baksho-401717.html|newspaper=First Post}}</ref> The film premiered in [[Kolkata]] on 12 April 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/content/44699413-aparna-sens-goynar-baksho-bengali-film-opens-dazzling-premiere-kolkata |title=Aparna Sen's Goynar Baksho Bengali Film Opens with Dazzling Premiere in Kolkata &#124; ওয়াশিংটন বাংলা রেডিও Washington Bangla Radio USA |access-date=16 April 2013 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402123716/http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/content/44699413-aparna-sens-goynar-baksho-bengali-film-opens-dazzling-premiere-kolkata |url-status=usurped }}</ref>

== Plot ==
The story is centred around the a wooden box containing 500 [[Indian units of measurement|''bhari''s]] of gold ornaments kept sequestered away. Its original owner is Rashmani, the daughter of a [[Bengali Hindus|Bengali Hindu]] [[Zamindars of Bengal|zamindar]] family from [[Faridpur District|Faridpur]], who was married off at the age of 11 & was tragically widowed within a few months of her marriage. She was extremely possessive of her jewellery & utilised her hot temper to keep others away from her jewellery box. Following the [[Partition of Bengal (1947)|partition of Bengal]], she migrated alongside her brothers' family to a suburb called Nababganj located near [[Ichapore]] in [[West Bengal]]. In 1949, Somalata, the daughter of a poor family, enters the household as the wife of Chandan, the younger of the 2 sons of Rashmani's younger brother. Due to not being greedy for jewellery, Rashmani develops a liking for her. However, a few months after Somalata's marriage, Rashmani dies. Due to excessive attachment towards her jewellery, Rashmani becomes a ghost in her afterlife. To keep her jewellery away from the hands of her greedy relatives, Rashmani's ghost hands them over to Somalata.

As time progresses, the family's accumulated wealth steadily decreases due to the male members of the family refusing to work for a living in order to protect their aristocratic heritage, exacerbated by the cost of legal fees incurred in resolving the property dispute between Rashmani's two brothers and the [[Problem gambling|gambling addiction]] of Chandan's elder brother. In midst of all of these difficulties, Somalata was able to keep the jewellery box hidden away, under the ever-watchful eye of Rashmani's ghost. Finally, she secretly arranges for some money by [[Pawnbroker|pawning]] some of the hidden jewellery, and with that money she sets up a business of selling [[sari]]s, despite opposition from her father-in-law and brother-in-law. Somalata effectively manages the shop (which she named after Rashmani in her honour) and was able to return the pawned jewellery. When Somalata came to know about the existence of Chandan's mistress, she complained about it to Rashmani's ghost, who then encouraged her to forge an extra-marital affair. Somalata slowly falls in love with a [[Bengali Muslims|Bengali Muslim]] man named Rafiq who was a poet, but she later abandoned him out of conscience and consummated her marriage completely with Chandan, heartbroken Rafiq committed suicide. Failing to make Somalata unchaste, Rashmani stopped visiting her and started meeting with Somalata's daughter Chaitali.

[[Modernism|Modernist]] & pursuing higher education in a college, Chaitali quickly befriends Rashmani's ghost. Since Chaitali shared a lot of facial features with Rashmani, Somalata believes that Rashmani had [[Reincarnation|reincarnated]] as Chaitali, so she hands over Rashmani's jewellery box to her. The film now progresses to the year 1971 with the outbreak of the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]. Rashmani's lover Banwarilal (alias Benu) repeatedly crossed the [[Bangladesh–India border|border]] to provide supplies to the [[Mukti Bahini]]. After he was caught and shot dead by the [[Pakistan Army|Pakistani army]], Chaitali on being advised by Rashmani's ghost , donates all the jewellery in that box to the cause of the Mukti Bahini and later Chaitali also learns about Rafiq and Somalata's past from the last few scripts of poems written by Rafiq which she finds in an abandoned house where she used to meet with her lover "Benu".She hands those letters to Somalata anonymously making her realize the depth of love which Rafiq had for her in the past. In the end Somalata finally realized her feelings which she had in the past which causes Rashmani's soul to finally have peace and to be liberated from the state of being a ghost.

== Production ==
Aparna Sen thought to make this film in 1993. But she was not getting the right production house to finance the film. That is why she had to delay the project so long. Sen told–<ref name='Aparna Sen to film "Goynar Baksho"'/>
<blockquote>"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."</blockquote>

== Cast ==
* [[Moushumi Chatterjee]] as Rashmani
* [[Konkona Sen Sharma]] as Somalata
* [[Srabanti Chatterjee]] as Chaitali & younger Rashmani
* [[Saswata Chatterjee]] as Chandan
* [[Paran Bandopadhyay]] as Chandan's Father, Rashmani's younger brother
* [[Aparajita Adhya]] as Chandan's sister-in-law
* [[Pijush Ganguly]] as Chandan's elder brother
* [[Manasi Sinha]] as Chandan's mother
* [[Kaushik Sen]] as Rafiq, Somalata's sometime lover
* [[Koushik Roy]] as Banwarilal aka Benu, Chaitali's lover & Ramakhilao, a low caste [[Biharis|Bihari]] Hindu labourer with whom the young Rashmani had a brief affair
* [[Monu Mukhopadhyay]] as Chandan's paternal uncle, Rashmani's elder brother
* [[Sudipta Chakraborty]] as Kamala, Chandan's mistress
* [[Pradip Mukherjee]] as the family doctor

== Tracklist ==
{| class="wikitable" width="100%" style="font-size:100%; text-align:left;"
|-
! 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" || [[Anindya Chatterjee]], [[Upal Sengupta]]
|-
| "Nodir Oparey Ghono Kuasha" || [[Rupankar Bagchi]]
|-
| "Sakhi Ri" || [[Shubha Mudgal]]
|-
|}

==Awards and nominations==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Ceremony
! Category
! Nominee
! Result
|-
| rowspan="4"|[[Filmfare Awards East]]
| Best Director – Bengali
| ''[[Aparna Sen]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Award Bangla for Best Actress|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]]''
| {{nom}}
|}

== See also ==
* [[Aborto]]
* [[Balukabela.com]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|2819358}}
* [https://www.hotstar.com/1770002707 ''Goynar Baksho''] at [[Disney+ Hotstar]]

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[[Category:Films based on Indian novels]]
[[Category:Films based on works by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay]]
[[Category:Films directed by Aparna Sen]]
[[Category:2013 comedy films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Debojyoti Mishra]]
[[Category:Bengali-language comedy horror films]]
[[Category:Bengali-language supernatural horror films]]
[[Category:Bengali-language comedy-drama films]]

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