Kony (1984)

Synopsis:
Kony is a National Award Winning Bengali Film, starring Soumitra Chatterjee & Sriparna Banerjee. A literary adaptation of a novel by Mati Nandi, Koni is an inspiritational tale of a coach and his trainee who fight all odds to achieve their aims. Khidda (Soumitra Chatterjee) is a swimming coach who teaches swimming to underprivileged kids. He picks Koni (Sriparna Banerjee) from the slums of Calcutta (now Kolkata) 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.

Starring:
Soumitra Chatterjee
Sriparna Banerjee
Swarup Dutt

Director: Saroj De
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