Kabuliwala

Kabuliwala (1957)

কাবুলিওয়ালা

Rahmat, a middle-aged fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise and befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini who reminds him of his own daughter back in Afghanistan. One day Rehmat receives news of his daughter’s illness and decides to return to Afghanistan. But before he goes a violent fight with a customer leads to Rehmat killing him. He gets out of prison ten years later. Based on a Rabindranath Tagore story.

Date of release
1957-04-01
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
Drama
Director
Tapan Sinha

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Kabuliwala
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature Film

Kabuliwala is a 1957 Bengali film directed by Tapan Sinha and based on the eponymous 1892 short story by the Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore.

Production

The Afghanistan part in the film was shot in Rajasthan.

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