Konikar Ramdhenu is an Assamese language

Assamese language

Assamese is the easternmost Indo-Aryan language. It is used mainly in the state of Assam in North-East India. It is also the official language of Assam. It is also spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states. Nagamese, an Assamese-based Creole language is widely used in...

 film directed by Jahnu Barua

Jahnu Barua

Jahnu Barua is a multiple national and international award-winning Indian film director from Assam. He has directed a number of Assamese and Hindi films, and along with Bhabendra Nath Saikia was one of the pioneers of Assamese Art cinema...

. The film was released in 2003. The film was shown in Indian Panorama section of IFFI during October 2002 in Delhi and Mumbai International Festival in 2003. The film is the last instalment of his trilogy, the other two being Xagoroloi Bohu Door (1995) and Pokhi

Pokhi

Pokhi is an Assamese language film directed by Jahnu Barua. The film was released in 1998. The film is the second instalment of his trilogy others two being Xagoroloi Bohu Door and Konikar Ramdhenu . The film won a National Award as the Best Film in the Regional Category in 2000....

(1998). This film depicts the horrors that happen in a juvenile home.

Plot

The story revolves around an imaginative and intelligent 11 year old boy Kukoi (played by Ronik) who runs away from his village home and starts working in a motor garage in a city. One day the owner attempts to molest Kukoi and in self defence Kokoi hits the owner with an iron rod killing him on the spot. Kukoi is produced before court and then sent to state juvenile home where he is traumatized. Biswa Boro, the warden of the home, is an understanding man. He coaxes the boy into a confession of the true circumstances of the painful event. Kukoi is brought before the magistrate who orders his release and custody to his parents or any authorised guardian. Biswa goes to Kukoi’s village where he discovers that the boy’s mother died years ago and his stepfather has disowned him. Biswa who is now retired and does not have children decides to adopt Kukoi.

Trivia

Director Jahnu Barua visited 12 juvenile homes before making the film. And in his observation is found thus, out of one hundred cases, more than eighty end up in “negative situations”, much below expectations.