'''Kony'''


1984 131’ col Bengali
d/sc/co-dial Saroj De pc West Bengal Govt
co-dial Jayanta Bhattacharya st Moti Nandy
lyr Rabindranath Tagore c Kamal Nayak
m Chinmoy Chatterjee
lp Soumitra Chatterjee, Sreeparna Bannerjee,
Moushumi Roy, Sarmishta Mukherjee, Subrata
Sen, Swaroop Dutta


A sporting melodrama about a wayward but
determined swimming coach, Kshitish Sinha
(Chatterjee), and his star disciple, the female
street urchin Kony (Bannerjee). Under her
coach’s tutelage, Kony overcomes all
adversities, including hostile sports
administrators, and wins her race. Adapted
from a story by the noted sports journalist and
novelist Moti Nandy (cf. the novel Striker,
filmed in 1978). Both the realism and the
political references mandatory in Bengali
cinema (club rivalry, Sinha becoming a
speechwriter for a politically ambitious
industrialist) are present, and Kony’s general
defiance of both gender and class oppression
keeps the sentimentalism within bounds.
Director Saroj De was associated with the
famous Agragami collective

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