Shirshendu happy over Goynar Baksho framed on celluloid

Kolkata: Happy that his popular fiction Goynar Baksho was at last framed on celluloid, writer Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay said he had wished it be made by none other than Aparna Sen.

"When Aparna first approached me for the right of the literary work several years back I felt it will fall in the hand of the right person. Yes Goynar Baksho has cinematric elements I knew and I was happy the way the story evolved in her hands. We had several sessions and she did it wonderfully.

But then things got stalled and it was a helpless situation for us both," Shirshendu, several of whose stories and novels had been filmed by directors, told PTI.

The celebrated writer was speaking at the special show of the movie, produced by Venkatesh Films, tonight.

"Are you happy with the way the script has retained the essence of your story. Do you think I have deviated?" director Aparna Sen quizzed Shirshendu as the affable writer said "no way".

"I liked the way she kept the feminist aspect, the cries of a widow, the journey of a humble, non-descript, rural home maker and the evolving of women over decades. Goynar Baksho is a film on womanhood in a sense and I could identify with the characters I portrayed. Every woman should," popular Bengali actress Srabonti said.

Srabonti, who was apparently very edgy before start of the screening, said "thanks to Rinadi (Aparna Sen) for giving me break in such a different genre film as in fact I believe the different genres in film making in Bengal is getting merged as every day passes."

"I was nervous as I did not know how the audience of a film by someone like Aparna Sen would take me, but now I know I have been accepted," the 'Kanamachhi' journalist said who turned up in the first art-house film after 14 masala movies said.

"We always try to get inspiration from directors like Rinadi. You will pick up something or a whole lot of things if you look at the shots and frames carefully," successful mainstream movie director Rajiv Biswas said.

Goynar Baksho is running in packed houses since its release on April 12.