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Kabuliwala is a film of genre Drama directed by Tapan Sinha with Chhabi Biswas
Kabuliwala (1957)
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Add to a movie listKabuliwala (Bengali: কাবুলিওয়ালা) is a 1957 Bengali film directed by Tapan Sinha and based on the eponymous story by the Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore.
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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.Actors
Chhabi Biswas
(Rahmat)
Kali Banerjee
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