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Kabuliwala

Kabuliwala

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 1, 1957

Runtime

1h 56m

Genres

Drama

User Score

55%

Original Title

Kabuliwala

Production Companies

Cholochitro studio

Director

Tapan Sinha

Description

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.