Kabuliwala (1957)
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.
Director:
Tapan Sinha
Writer:
Tapan Sinha
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Chhabi Biswas as Rahmat |
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Oindrila Tagore as Mini |
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Radhamohan Bhattacharya as Girl's Father |
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Manju Dey as Girl's Mother |
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Shrabani Chowdhury as |
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Jiben Bose as |
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Jahar Roy as |
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Kali Bannerjee as |
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Nutu Basu as |
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Krishnadhan Mukhopadhyay as |
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Ranjan Gupta as |
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Rasaraj Chakraborty as |
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Dhiraj Das as |
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Nripati Chatterjee as |
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Lalu Barman as |
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Atanu Kumar as |
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Lilabati as |
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Manju Sharma as |
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Asha Devi as |
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Devi Neogy as |
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Subal Dutta as |
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Gopen Mukherjee as |
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Parijat Bose as |
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Preeti Majumdar as |
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Pijush Bose as |
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Debranjan Mukherjee as |
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Jayashree Biswas as |
| Directing | Tapan Sinha | Director |
| Sound | Ravi Shankar | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Subodh Roy | Editor |
| Art | Suniti Mitra | Art Direction |
| Writing | Rabindranath Tagore | Short Story |
| Writing | Premendra Mitra | Dialogue |
| Camera | Anil Banerjee | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Tapan Sinha | Screenplay |