Kabuliwala (1957 film)

Kabuliwala (Bengali: কাবুলিওয়ালা 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.

This article is about the 1957 Bengali film. For the 1961 Bollywood film, see Kabuliwala (1961 film). For 1993 Malayalam film, see Kabooliwala.

Kabuliwala
Kabuliwala (1957) cover
Directed byTapan Sinha
Produced byCharuchitra
Screenplay byTapan Sinha
Story byRabindranath Tagore
Based onKabuliwala
by Rabindranath Tagore
StarringChhabi Biswas
Oindrila Tagore (Tinku)
Asha Devi
Radhamohan Bhattacharya
Manju Dey
Jahar Roy
Kali Banerjee
Jiben Bose
Music byPandit Ravi Shankar
CinematographyAnil Banerjee
Edited bySubodh Ray
Distributed byboth
Release date
  • 4 January 1957 (1957-01-04)
Running time
116 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

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.

One day, Rahmat receives a letter with news of his daughter's illness; he decides to leave for his country. Since he is short of money he sells his goods on credit to increase his business. Later, when he goes to collect his money, one of his customers abuses him. In the fight that ensues, Rahmat warns that he will not tolerate abuse and stabs the guy when he does not stop.

In the court Rahmat's lawyer tries to obfuscate the facts but, in his characteristic and simple fashion, Rahmat states the truth in a matter-of-fact way. The judge, pleased with Rahmat's honesty, gives him 10 years' rigorous imprisonment instead of the death sentence.

On the day of his release he goes to meet Mini and discovers that she has grown up into a 14-year-old girl who is about to get married. Mini does not recognize the aged Rahmat, who realizes that his daughter must have forgotten him, too. Mini's father advises him to go back to his homeland and Mini's mother gives Rahmat the money for travel out of the wedding budget to which Mini agrees; she also sends a gift for Rahmat's daughter.

Cast

Awards

See also

References
  1. "4th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
  2. "7th Berlin International Film Festival: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 11 October 2010.


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