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Roti (1974 film)

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'Roti' is a 1974 Indian Hindi-language action film, produced by Rajni Desai and Rajesh Khanna under the banner Aashirwad Pictures Pvt. Ltd and directed by Manmohan Desai. It stars Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz, with music composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal. This film was released on 18 October 1974, along with 'Benaam' and 'Roti Kapda Aur Makaan'. Kader Khan was reportedly paid 1.21 million for writing dialogues for the film. The film was remade in Telugu as 'Neram Nadi Kadu Akalidi', starring N.T. Rama Rao and Manjula.

Plot



Mangal Singh has been a career criminal and he is finally sentenced to be hanged due to the murder of a man for the sake of bread (roti). Underworld don, Suraj who raises him as a criminal, plans his escape from jail and is followed by a police inspector. He escapes on a train when he throws a fellow passenger Shravan Kumar off the train. Mangal Singh lands up in a small village in Northern India and becomes a school teacher with the help of a local restaurateur, Bijli. He takes on the identity of Ramu, a friend of Shravan, and goes to live with Shravan's parents, Lalaji and Malti who are blind, little knowing that they are the parents of a man he killed while escaping from the police. Bijli falls in love with the reluctant Mangal, but she discovers the truth when inspector Jagdish Raj comes to search Mangal in the same village and informs the blind couple about Shravan's death due to Mangal. Finally, Mangal also learns the truth about Shravan's parents. Mangal reunites Lalaji's long-lost daughter with him, who thereby releases Shravan's house. Mangal takes Shravan's parents for a holy pilgrimage along with Bijli where he meets the alive Shravan again. He pardons him and allows him to escape from the police, but Bijli follows him. While in pursuit of Mangal, Suraj shoots Bijli, but he dies in the snow avalanche. Bijli dies and Mangal is shot by inspector Sujit. The inspector finds Mangal dying with a gun without cartridges asking none to deprive anyone of bread (roti).

Cast



* Rajesh Khanna as Mangal Singh

* Mumtaz as Bijli

* Nirupa Roy as Malti

* Jagdeep as Khadak Singh

* Pinchoo Kapoor as Suraj

* Sujit Kumar as Police Inspector

* Jagdish Raj as Police Inspector

* Viju Khote as Doctor

* Om Prakash as Lalajee

* Vijay Arora as Shravan

* Paintal as Headmaster

* Asrani as Ramu

* Jeetendra as 'Himself (guest appearance)'

* Jeevan as Lalaji

* Pravin Paul as Mrs Lalaji

Soundtrack



Box Office



The film was a major Box-office success of the year and considered to be the mile-stone in the path of illustrious career of Formula-films made by Manmohan Desai. The Film grossed Rs.2.00 Crores in India and Rs.4.00 Crores worldwide. That works out to Rs.160.00 Crores and Rs.320.00 Crores resp. at 2018 price.

Remake



The film is loosely inspired by the English movie 'Face of a Fugitive', a 1959 movie. Vast changes were made in the script of 'Roti'. Later, 'Roti' was remade in Telugu as 'Neram Nadi Kadu Akalidi', in 1976 starring N.T. Rama Rao.

Awards



* Filmfare Best Editing Award Kamlakar Karkani[http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf 1st Filmfare Awards 1953]

References




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