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KABULIWALA
KABULIWALA
TAPAN SINHA
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KABULIWALA
KABULIWALA
TAPAN SINHA
Country
INDIA
language
Bengali
1957 year
116 Minutes

Synopsis

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.

Producer(s) or Production Company: Charuchitra
Screenplay: Tapan Sinha
Director of Photography: Anil Banerjee
Editor: Subodh Ray
Music: Pandit Ravi Shankar
Sound: Mani Basu
Cast: Chhabi Biswas, Oindrila Tagore (Tinku), Asha Devi, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Manju Dey, Jahar Roy, Kali Banerjee, Jiben Bose

Awards - Winner: Berlin IFF (Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury) National FA (Best Feature)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: NA