Kony (1984)
2h 11m
Running Time
April 16, 1984Release Date
Plot.
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 emerge as distinct roadblocks in their path.
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Cast & Crew.
Soumitra Chatterjee
Khitish Sinha (Khid-da)
Sriparna Banerjee
Kony
Snigdha Banerjee
Swarup Dutta
Pranabendu Biswas
Mousami Roy
Haradhan Basu
Actor
Arijit Guha
Haricharan
Saroj Dey
Director / Screenplay
Rabin Bhattacharya
Actor
Moti Nandi
Original Story
Ramesh Joshi
Editor
Chinmoy Chattopadhyay
Music Director
Kamal Nayak
Cinematography
Rabindranath Tagore
Lyricist
Details.
Release DateApril 16, 1984
Original Nameকোনি
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 11m
Genres
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Wiki.
Koni (Bengali: কোনি; sometimes spells as Koney or Kony) is a national award-winning Bengali movie released in 1984 directed by Saroj Dey, 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's lead Sriparna Banerjee was also a professional swimmer herself in the 1970s and at the time of casting a student of Jadavpur University.
In a 2012 interview, veteran actor, Soumitra Chatterjee, called Koni 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.