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Koni (Bengali: কোনি; sometimes spells as Koney or Kony)[2][1] is a national award-winning Bengali movie released in 1984 directed by Saroj Dey,[3] 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.[4]
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DVD cover of the film Koni | |
| Directed by | Saroj Dey |
| Written by | Moti Nandi |
| Based on | Koni by Moti Nandi |
| Starring | Sriparna Banerjee Soumitra Chatterjee Snigdha Banerjee Swarup Dutta |
| Edited by | Ramesh Joshi |
| Music by | Chinmay Chattopadhyay |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
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.[5][6]
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 Kanakchampa Pal alias 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.[3]
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