Uski Roti

Uski Roti (English titles: Other's bread, Your bread) is a 1969 Hindi film directed by Mani Kaul. It was Kaul's first feature film, based on a short story of the same name by Mohan Rakesh, who also wrote the dialogue for the film. The film won the 1970 Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, and is considered a seminal work of the Indian New Wave.

Synopsis

The film depicts the life of a truck driver Sucha Singh (Gurdeep Singh) and his wife Balo (Garima). Balo has to get Sucha Singh's food ready every day, walk a long distance through the fields and wait for him on the highway as he drives past the village. He leads an independent life, playing cards with his friends and spending time with his mistress, and comes home only once a week. However, he expects his wife to play the traditional role. One day Balo gets late, trying to save her sister from the advances of a lecherous villager. Sucha Singh is angry, and drives away without his food. She decides to wait for him until nightfall.

Roti

Roti (also known as chapati) is an Indian Subcontinent flat bread, made from stoneground wholemeal flour, traditionally known as atta flour, that originated and is consumed in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka , Maldives and Bangladesh. It is also consumed in parts of South Africa, the southern Caribbean, particularly in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname, and Fiji. Its defining characteristic is that it is unleavened. Indian naan bread, by contrast, is a yeast-leavened bread. A kulcha in Indian cuisine is a bread-like accompaniment, made of processed flour (maida) leavened with yeast.

Various types of roti are integral to South Asian cuisine.

Etymology

The word roti is derived from the Sanskrit word रोटिका (roṭikā), meaning "bread". Names in other languages are Hindi: रोटी; Assamese: ৰুটী; Nepali : रोटी; Bengali: রুটি; Sinhalese: රොටි; Gujarati: રોટલી; Marathi: पोळी; Odia: ରୁଟି; Malayalam: റൊട്ടി; Kannada: ರೊಟ್ಟಿ; Telugu: రొట్టి; Tamil: ரொட்டி; Urdu: روٹی‎; Dhivehi: ރޮށި; Punjabi: ਰੋਟੀ,ਫੂਲਕਾ; Thai: โรตี. It is also known as maani in (Sindhi: مانِي‎) and phulka in Punjabi and Saraiki.

Roti (1974 film)

Roti is a 1974 Indian Hindi language film produced by Rajni Desai on Aashirwad Pictures Pvt.Ltd banner, directed by Manmohan Desai. Starring Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz in the lead roles and music composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal. This film got released on 11 October 1974 along-with Benaam and Roti Kapda Aur Makaan.

Plot

Mangal Singh has been a career criminal and he is finally sentenced to be hanged. Behind the bars he meets underworld don, Suraj and plans to run away from police. They finally escape from jail. Mangal Singh lands up in a small village in Northern India, and becomes a school teacher with the help of local restaurateur, Bijli. He takes on the identity of Ramu, a friend of Shravan, and goes to live with Shravans parents, Lalaji and Malti, little knowing that they are the parents of a man he killed while escaping from the police.

Cast

Soundtrack

Remake

The film was copied from English movie Face of the Fugitive, a 1959 movie. This movie was remade in Telugu as Neram Naadi Kaadu Aakalidi in 1976 starring N.T. Rama Rao.

Roti (disambiguation)

Roti is a common South Asian word for bread.

Roti or ROTI may also refer to:

Pakistani Punjabi-language film directed by Idrees Khan

Rôti may refer to:

See also