Treasured

What would you do if you had a little treasure trove, like Pishima – or her ghost – did, say all of 5 kilos of gold? Would you bury it in hate and spite, use it as a tool for maintaining primacy and engendering conflict, driven by the ghosts of your own sad and troubled past? Or would you, over time, start believing in the goodness of human nature and start using the treasure trove to enable someone to start a business, re-unite a family, perhaps even fight for a cause? And all the while acknowledging the little voice inside you that well, encourages you to do otherwise. And this is where Goynar Baksho (The Jewellery Box, Bengali) pulls off an unexpected success, and even as the movie dilates and constricts rather asynchronously in parts, the central theme is rather well established

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