Konikar Ramdhenu




We all scramble to watch the best movie and when we know its won the National Award, it only gets the better of us if we don't get to see it on time. So even after knowing that Konikar Ramdhenu received the National Award in 2002, I was destined a see only this year and that too while anchoring for the 2nd Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival on the evening of 19th April, 2014. I decided to sit through this whole film and taste its flavour inspite of a hectic schedule on stage. And it was the best decision I took in some time! An intense movie, it had little to do with the physical 'dhishum dhishum', but so much more about tormented souls, who needed to be heard!
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Konikar Ramdhenu (Assamese: কণিকাৰ ৰামধেনু) is an Assamese language film directed by Jahnu Barua. It 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.^[1] It is the last installment of his trilogy, the other two being Xagoroloi Bohu Door (1995) and Pokhi (1998). Konikar Ramdhenu depicts the horrors that happen in a juvenile home.

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The story revolves around an imaginative and intelligent 11-year-old boy Kukoi 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. 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 the 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.

Director Jahnu Barua visited 12 juvenile homes before making the film. He observed that out of 100 cases, more than 80 end up in “negative situations”, much below expectations.

Directed by	Jahnu Barua
Produced by	Sailadhar Baruah
Written by	Jahnu Barua
Starring	Bishnu Kharghoria Moloya Goswami Reba Phukan Dinesh Das Ronik Abinash Sharma Ashwini Bhuyan Indrani Gogoi
Music by	Reeta Das Baruah Y. S. Moolky
Cinematography	P. Rajan
Editing by	Heu-En Baruah
Distributed by	Dolphin Films Pvt. Ltd
Release dates	2003
Running time	112 minutes
Country	India
Language	Assamese