Starring: Moushumi Chatterjee, Konkona Sen Sharma, Srabanti Biswas
Directed by Aparna Sen
Rating: ***
This enchanting and humorous tale is also a heartrending tale of loneliness and longing
Starring: Moushumi Chatterjee, Konkona Sen Sharma, Srabanti Biswas
Directed by Aparna Sen
Rating: ***
The director powerfully captures the paradox of how flimsy human social norms fashion life-binding, soul-threatening nooses in a transient world. Lives in the material world and their petty attachments are constantly and effortlessly juxtaposed with the misty, spectral image of the other world to drive home this irony. Its central motif: the jewellery in the box which continues to exist even after its owner has perished.
Moushumi’s Pishima is as enduring as Konkona’s Somlata is entertaining. Srabonti’s young Pishima grows on us more than the character of her double role as the grand niece. Indeed, it is the meandering plot, traversing as it does into the third generation and the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, where the film begins to falter.
The ending has its own relevance, leading us to a supremely liberating closure, but it nevertheless drags on, lacking the character, even losing the humour, of the rest of the movie. That can be forgiven and forgotten. What lingers—like the dazzle of the gold in the box—is the brilliant cinematography. The play of light and shade—capturing all those hues of life and death.
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Courtesy: Film Information