Kabuliwala (1961 film)

Kabuliwala (1961)

Film poster
Directed by Hemen Gupta
Produced by Bimal Roy
Leela Desai (assoc.)
Written by Vishram Bedekar
S. Khalil
Based on Kabuliwala
by Rabindranath Tagore
Starring Balraj Sahni
Usha Kiran
Sajjan
Sonu.
Music by Salil Choudhury
Cinematography Kamal Bose
Edited by Madhu Prabhavalkar
Release dates
 December 14, 1961
Running time
 134 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi

Kabuliwala (Hindi: काबुलीवाला) is a 1961 Hindi film based on a story, Kabuliwala, by the Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore. It was directed by Hemen Gupta and starred Balraj Sahni, Usha Kiran, Sajjan, Sonu and Baby Farida.[1][2]

Plot

The simple story of Kabuliwala is about the affection between Abdur Rahamat Khan, an Afghani immigrant dry-fruit-seller in Calcutta and Mini (Sonu), a girl who he imagines as his child-figure in memory of his daughter, Amina (Baby Farida), left behind in Kabul.

Cast

Background

Gupta 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 Gupta’s Kabuliwala, produced by Bimal Roy, starring the veteran actor Balraj Sahni.

This story, unlike many other Tagore-inspired films that are more strongly rooted in context and period, offers a more classical perspective on humanism, identity and difference. Tagore’s 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.

The story was translated from Bangla into English by the Irish woman Margaret Elizabeth Noble, more popularly known to the world as Sister Nivedita, and published in the Modern Review.[3]

Soundtrack

Music – Salil Choudhury; Lyrics – Prem Dhawan, Gulzar

References

  1. ↑ "Of Kabuliwala and Unconditional Love", by Dinesh Raheja, Rediff.com.
  2. ↑ Kabuliwala New York Times.
  3. ↑ "From Kolkata to Dublin via Kabul: Tagore's Internationalism And Cinema". Silhouette Magazine & Learning and Creativity. 2014-05-25. Retrieved 2014-05-27.
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