Kony (film)

Kony Bengali is a national award winning Bengali movie released in 1986 directed by Saroj Dey, starring Soumitra Chatterjee and Sriparna Banerjee. This film is a 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. Films lead Sriparna Banerjee was also a professional swimmer herself in the 1970s and at the time of casting a student of Jadavpur University.

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.

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