Kony (1986)

Original title

কোনি

Directed by

Saroj Dey

Genre

sport film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 11m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young swimmer from a modest background trains hard to compete in national championships. The film follows her struggle to overcome obstacles and achieve success in her sport.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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