Koni is a national award winning movie released in 1986 starring Soumitra Chatterjee & Sriparna Banerjee. This film is a literary adaptation of a Bengali novel by Moti Nandi

Moti Nandi

Moti Nandi [10 July 1931 - 3 January 2010] was a Bengali writer based in Kolkata, India. He was born in Kolkata in 1931. He was an alumnus of the University of Calcutta. He died in 2010.-Career:...

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Synopsis

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.

Making

• Direction and screenplay: Saroj Dey
  Saroj Dey
  Saroj Dey was a Bengali film director who is mainly famous for directing national award winning film Koni-Life:Saroj De was born in the year 1921. He played the lead role in the group Agragami. Saroj De has directed by his own name was the film called ‘Koni’ which was released in the year 1986....
  
  
• Story: Moti Nandi
  Moti Nandi
  Moti Nandi [10 July 1931 - 3 January 2010] was a Bengali writer based in Kolkata, India. He was born in Kolkata in 1931. He was an alumnus of the University of Calcutta. He died in 2010.-Career:...
  
  
• Music Directr: Chinmay Chattopadhyay
• Editor: Ramesh Joshi
• Art Direction: Subhash Singharoy
• Make Up: Basir Ahmed

Cast

• Sriparna Banerjee
• Soumitra Chatterjee
  Soumitra Chatterjee
  Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay is an iconic Bengali actor from India, known among other things for his frequent collaborations with the great Bengali film director Satyajit Ray and his constant comparison with the Bengali screen idol Uttam Kumar.-Background:Soumitra graduated from...
  
  
• Snigdha Banerjee
• Swarup Dutta
• Bimal Deb
• Subrata Sensharma
• Sidhartha Bose
• Dipankar Banerjee
• Bhola Bose
• Ashoke Mitra
• Arijit Guha