![]() ![]() In the mountains, the Kabuliwala leaves behind a motherless daughter to come to Calcutta and save his family from penury. ![]() While the reader is kept guessing if Rahnum and Mini’s friendship has any underlying story, the movie reveals the plot from the first scene. We have grown used to loudspeakers blaring Ae Mere Pyare Watan on Independence Day every year, but many do not realise that we have co-opted the song as a love letter for India, whereas in fact, the song is picturised on the Kabuliwala pining for his country, Afghanistan. The film, directed by Hemen Gupta and produced by Bimal Roy, was released in 1961. Later, the story titled ‘Kabuliwala’ found a wider audience when it was immortalised on screen through a Hindi movie by the same name. The swift takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban forces have not only presented horrifying visuals of people trying to escape the country clinging to flying planes and mothers throwing their babies over barbed wire, but also of Afghan nationals in India who are worried sick about their families back home.Īs each story makes us see the Afghans amid us who have made India their home since long, memory rearranges itself to recall a fictional Afghan hero who had made appearance in a Bengali short story by Rabindranath Tagore in 1892.
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