Kabuliwala
Kabuliwala ( Kābuli'ōẏālā, "Kabul wallah") is a 1957 Bengali film directed by Tapan Sinha and based on the eponymous 1892 short story by the Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore.
Plot
Rahmat (Chhabi Biswas), a middle-age fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise. He befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini (Oindrila Tagore aka Tinku Tagore) who reminds him of his daughter back in Afghanistan. He stays at a boarding house with his countrymen.
Awards
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| author | Tapan Sinha |
|---|---|
| award | National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali |
| contentLocation | Kolkata |
| director | Tapan Sinha |
| editor | Subodh Ray |
| keywords | afghanistan bengali girl boarding house death sentence married wed |
| musicBy | Ravi Shankar |
| producer | Charuchitra |
| publisher | both |
| theme | children's |