Kony (film)

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{{about|the Bengali film|other uses|Kony (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Koni
| image = Kony film DVD cover.jpeg
| alt = DVD cover of the film Koni
| caption = DVD cover of the film Koni
| director = [[Saroj Dey]]
| writer = [[Moti Nandi]]
| based_on = {{based on|''Koni'', [[Moti Nandi]]}}
| starring = Sriparna Banerjee<br>Soumitra Chatterjee<br>Snigdha Banerjee<br>Swarup Dutta
| music = Chinmay Chattopadhyay
| editing = Ramesh Joshi
| released = 16 April 1984<ref name=toi>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movie-details/kony/movieshow/61255941.cms|title=Kony|work=[[The Times of India]]|accessdate=2 August 2019}}</ref>
| country = India
| language = Bengali
}}

'''''Koni''''' ({{lang-bn|কোনি}}; sometimes spells as '''''Koney''''' or '''''Kony''''')<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/photo-features/tollywoods-list-of-incredible-sports-movies-to-binge-on/saheb-1981/photostory/64145871.cms|title=Tollywood's list of incredible sports movies to binge on|work=The Times of India|accessdate=2 August 2019}}</ref><ref name=toi/> is a national award-winning [[Bengali language|Bengali]] movie released in 1984 directed by [[Saroj Dey]],<ref name=pragoti>{{cite web|title=Lessons for the Indian Left from Koni|url=http://www.pragoti.in/taxonomy/term/2726|publisher=Pragoti|date=23 July 2011|accessdate=11 April 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423044407/http://www.pragoti.in/node/4469|archivedate=23 April 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> 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 the help of her coach triumphs over poverty and hardships. 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]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Nandi, Moti|title=BOOKMINE: Koni|year=2012|publisher=Hachette India|isbn=978-93-5009-383-2|pages=6–}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Soumitra Chatterjee: I don't have much faith in awards|website=[[Rediff.com]]|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/slide-show/slide-show-1-interview-with-soumitra-chatterjee/20120516.htm#4|pages=1–7|date=16 May 2012}}</ref>

==Synopsis==
''Koni'' is an inspirational story of a coach and his trainee Koni 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.<ref name=pragoti/>

==Awards==
*[[National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment]] at the [[32nd National Film Awards]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm32ndNFAAward.aspx|title=32nd National Film Awards|publisher=[[International Film Festival of India]]|page=4|accessdate=23 May 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926054317/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm32ndNFAAward.aspx|archivedate=26 September 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Cast and crew==

===Cast===
*Sriparna Banerjee as Kony, a underprivileged teenaged girl from North Calcutta, who against all odds finally gets her dream fulfilled by shining in the National Meet as one of the representatives of Bengal and winning gold in 400 m relay.
*[[Soumitra Chatterjee]] as Khitish Sinha (Khid da)- a former chief coach of 'Jupiter' club who after serving the club for 35 years, gets humiliated & wrongly expelled from his club, discovers Kony and nurtures her to help her reach her triumph.
* Snigdha Banerjee
*[[Swarup Dutta]] as Pranabendu Biswas, another honest and idealist coach of Ballygunje Swimming Club, mentor of Kony's competitor Hiya. He is the key person to make Kony get selected for the National Meet and win her 1st medal.
*Bimal Deb
*Subrata Sensharma
*Sidhartha Bose
*Dipankar Banerjee
*Bhola Bose
*Ashoke Mitra
*Arijit Guha as Haricharan, Khidda's jealous competitor and chief trainer of Jupiter Club.

===Crew===
*'''Direction and screenplay''': [[Saroj Dey]]
*'''Story''': [[Moti Nandi]]
*'''Music Director''': Chinmay Chattopadhyay
*'''Editor''': Ramesh Joshi
*'''Art Direction''': Subhash Singharoy
*'''Make Up''': Basir Ahmed
*'''Cinematographer''': kamal nayan

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|309778}}

{{National Film Award Wholesome Entertainment}}

[[Category:Bengali-language films]]
[[Category:1986 films]]
[[Category:Films based on Indian novels]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Indian sports films]]
[[Category:Swimming films]]
[[Category:Teen sports films]]
[[Category:Films set in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment National Film Award winners]]
[[Category:1980s Bengali-language films]]

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