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 lakh 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 murder of a man for the sake of a bread. underworld don, Suraj who raises him up as a criminal,plans his escape from jail. Who is followed by. by Police inspector but he escapes in a train when he throws a fellow passenger Shravan Kumar off the train. Mangal Singh lands up in a small village in Northern India,.He 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 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 comes to know the truth about inspector Jagdish Raj comes to search Mangal at the same village and inform s the blind couple about Shravan s death due to Mangal. Finally Mangal also comes to know the truth about Shravan s parents.Mangal reunites Lalaji s long lost daughter to him, who thereby releases Shravan house, Mangal takes Shravan s parents for a holy pilgrimage alongwith Bijli where he meets the survived Shravan again, who pardon s him and allows him to escape from the police, but Bijli follows him.Suraj in pursuit of the return of Mangal back to his gang shoots Bijli, but he dies in the snow avalanche. Finally Bijli dies and Mangal is shot by inspector Sujit but finds him dying with a gun without cartridges asking none to deprive anyone for bread
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 was 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.
