‘Kabuliwala’ trailer: Mithun Chakraborty stars in latest adaptation of the Rabindranath Tagore story
Suman Ghosh’s Bengali movie also stars Anumegha Kahali, Abir Chatterjee and Sohini Sarkar. Out in cinemas around Christmas.

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