Clutching the money in his hands, the Kabuliwallah ran out of the
room.
After having given some money to the Kabuliwallah, I knew that
I had to now curtail some of the planned expenses for the
festivities of the day. I realised that I could not now afford to have
the electric lights that I had intended to hire nor the military
band. The ladies of the house were quite despondent about this
when I informed them.
But to me, the thought that in a distant land a long-lost father will
once again meet his only child, made the wedding seem so much
more brighter.
Images created the Bengali and Hindi films “Cabuliwallah” produced in
1957 and 1961 respectively
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