Kabuliwala (1961 film)

Kabuliwala Hindi is a 1961 Hindi film based on a story, Kabuliwala, by the Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore. It was directed by Hemen Gupta, who had remained private secretary to Subhas Chandra Bose, and went on to direct many films including Taksaal 1956, also starring Balraj Sahni, and his tribute Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose 1966.

The most successful adaptation of a Tagore story outside Bengal was Hemen Guptas Kabuliwala, produced by Bimal Roy, starring the veteran actor Balraj Sahni. The simple story of Kabuliwala is about the affection between Abdur Rahamat Khan, an Afghani immigrant dryfruitseller in Calcutta and Mini Sonu, a girl who he imagines as his childfigure in memory of his daughter, Amina Baby Farida, left behind in Kabul.This story, unlike many other Tagoreinspired films that are more strongly rooted in context and period, offers a more classical perspective on humanism, identify and difference. Tagores Kabuliwala was published as a short story in Sadhana, a Bangla literary magazine he edited through the 1890s and the early decades of the twentieth century. ........

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