Bollywood yesteryear flick, Kabuliwala, directed by Hemen Gupta was released on December 14, 1961. The movie starred Balraj Sahni and Usha Kiran in lead roles while Asit Sen, Satyendra Kapoor, Sajjan, Sonu, Sarita devi, Paul Mahendra, Samar Chatterjee, Raj Verma and Padma Laxmi also played important characters in the film. The hit music of the movie was directed by the veteran music director Salil Chaudhary while the songs were crooned by Manna Dey, Mohammed Rafi, Usha Mangeshkar, Hemanata Mukherjee etc.

Abdul Rehman Khan ( Balraj Sahni ) is living a poor lifestyle in Kabul alongwith his mother and a young daughter named Amina ( Baby Farida ). His daughter falls ill and he borrows some money from a money lender in order to provide medical treatment to Amina. Amina recovers from her illness but Rehman is not in the condition to pay back the money to the money lender. He decides to relocate to Hindustan. He leaves for India leaving behind her mother and daughter to live alone in the house. He arrives in Hindustan and starts looking out for work. But he get shocked when people refuse to trust him as he is a afghani by origin.

He then starts working as a dry fruit seller on the streets. One day he come across a young girl named Mini ( Sonu ), who lives alongwith her parents. Mini get friendly with him but when her mother reveals about Rehman, she forbids Mini from seeing him anymore. But Mini’s father permits her to spend time with Rehman. Soon Rehman and Mini becomes close friends as Rehman consider her as his own daughter. Mini and her father get shocked when Rehman is arrested by police in the charge of performing robbery at a house.

The songs of the movie are:

1. Aye mere pyaare watan
2. Kabuliwaala aaya
3. Ganga aaya kahan se
4. Ya qurbaan