Roti (1974 film)

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

Note : Song "Yaar Hamari Baat Suno (Kishore Kumar)" is hugely based on a Bible passage "Jesus and the woman taken in adultery" ��� found in the Gospel of John 8:7. In this episode, after Jesus has sat down in the temple to teach some of the people, after he spent the previous night at the Mount of Olives, a group of scribes and Pharisees confront Jesus, interrupting his teaching session. They bring in an adulteress, and invite Jesus to pass judgment upon her: should she be stoned, as Moses taught, or not? Jesus first ignores the interruption, and writes on the ground as though he does not hear them. But after the religious leaders continue their challenge, he states , ���Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her".

Remake

The film was isnpired from the English movie Face of a Fugitive, a 1959 movie. Vast changes were made in script of Roti. Later was Roti movie was remade in Telugu as Neram Naadi Kaadu Aakalidi in 1976 starring N.T. Rama Rao.

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