''Roti '' () is a

1942 The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was th ...

Indian

Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...

film directed by

Mehboob Khan Mehboob Khan Ramzan Khan (9 September 1907
at filmreference.com. – 28 May 1964) was a pr ...

. This movie was anti-capitalist. This was Mehboob Khan's last movie before he set up his own production house. The cast included Chandramohan,

Sheikh Mukhtar Sheikh Mukhtar (24 December 1914 12 May 1980) was a film actor active in India and later in Pakistan. A tall and manly figure, who stood slightly under , Sheikh Mukhtar played a variety of film roles, from leading roles in many of Mehboob Kha ...

, Sitara, Akhtaribai Faizabadi and Ashraf Khan.

Cast

* Chandramohan *

* Jamshedji *

Sitara Devi Sitara Devi (born Dhanlakshmi; 8 November 1920 – 25 November 2014) was an Indian dancer of the classical Kathak style of dancing, a singer, and an actress. She was the recipient of several awards and accolades, and performed at several prest ...

* Akhtaribai Faizabadi * Nawab *

Agha Jani Kashmiri Syed Wajid Hussain Rizvi (Urdu: , born 16 October 1908 – 27 March 1998), better known by his film screen name, Agha Jani Kashmiri (Urdu: ), was an Indian screenwriter, former actor and Urdu poet. He worked in Bollywood films, as a writer for a ...

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack was composed by Anil Biswas with lyrics penned by Safdar Aah. Anil Biswas introduced Begum Akhtar as a singer in this movie.

References

External links

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Roti (1942)
on YouTube 1942 films 1940s Hindi-language films 1940s Indian films Films directed by Mehboob Khan Indian black-and-white films Indian drama films 1942 drama films Hindi-language drama films {{1940s-Hindi-film-stub