The Extended Canon
Uski Roti
उसकी रोटी · 1970
A woman waits by a roadside every day to hand her bus-driver husband his lunch. He is often late. That is the film.
- Director
- Mani Kaul
- Year
- 1970
- Genre
- Avant-garde · Drama
- Cast
- Gurdip Singh, Garima
Why it's in the canon
The most radical formal experiment in Hindi cinema, and the founding text of Indian avant-garde film.
A woman waits by a roadside every day to hand her bus-driver husband his lunch. He is often late. That is the film.
Uski Roti sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Mani Kaul.
- Released in 1970, in the 1970s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Avant-garde, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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