Kony (film)

This article is about the Bengali film. For other uses, see Kony (disambiguation).
Kony

DVD cover of the film Koni

DVD cover of the film Koni
Directed by Saroj Dey
Written by Saroj Dey
Based on Koni 
by Moti Nandi
Starring Sriparna Banerjee
Soumitra Chatterjee
Snigdha Banerjee
Swarup Dutta
Music by Chinmay Chattopadhyay
Edited by Ramesh Joshi

Kony (Bengali: কোনি) is a national award winning Bengali movie released in 1986 directed by Saroj Dey,[1] starring Soumitra Chatterjee and Sriparna Banerjee. This film is an adaptation of a Bengali novel by the same name written by Moti Nandi. The film is about a girl living in Calcutta slums, who with help of her coach triumph over poverty and hardships. Film's lead Sriparna Banerjee was also a professional swimmer herself in the 1970s and at the time of casting a student of Jadavpur University.[2]

In an 2012 interview, veteran actor, Soumitra Chatterjee, called Kony one of the best films of his career. He even recalled using film's catch-phrase "Fight-Koni-fight" in hard times, as a chant to himself to lift his "aging spirits". The phrase had become popular with middle-class Bengalis at the time.[3]

Synopsis

Kony is an inspirational story of a coach and his trainee Kony who fight all odds to achieve their aims. Khidda (Soumitra Chatterjee) is a swimming coach who teaches swimming to underprivileged kids. He picks Kony (character played by Sriparna Banerjee) from a slum of Calcutta and grooms her to be part of the Bengal Swimming team to compete at the National Swimming Championship. However, politics, poverty and social stigma emerges as distinct roadblocks in their path.[4]

Awards

Cast and Crew

Cast

Crew

References

  1. "Kony Release".
  2. Nandi, Moti (12 March 2012). BOOKMINE: Koni. Hachette India. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-93-5009-383-2.
  3. "Soumitra Chatterjee: I don't have much faith in awards". Rediff.com Movies. 16 May 2012. pp. 1–7. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
  4. "Lessons for the Indian Left from Kony". http://www.pragoti.in/. Retrieved 11 April 2012. External link in |publisher= (help)
  5. "32nd National Film Awards". International Film Festival of India. Retrieved 23 May 2014.

External links

Kony at the Internet Movie Database

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