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1974's highest-grossing film, inspired by Indira Gandhi's Garibi Hatao-era slogan, with three Filmfare Awards and Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman in the cast.", "snippet": "Roti Kapada Aur Makaan (रोटी कपड़ा और मकान), a 1974 Hindi social drama written, directed, produced by and starring Manoj Kumar; 1974's highest-grossing film, inspired by Indira Gandhi's Garibi Hatao-era slogan, with three Filmfare Awards and Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman in the cast.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.indian-cinema.hindi-films-of-the-1970s.yr-1970-1975", "markdown": "# Roti Kapda Aur Makaan (रोटी कपड़ा और मकान)\n\n**Roti Kapda Aur Makaan** (रोटी कपड़ा और मकान; \"Food, Clothing and Shelter\") is a 1974 Hindi-language social drama written, produced, directed, edited by, and starring Manoj Kumar, released on 18 October 1974[1](https://www.tuliresearchcentre.org/zeenat-aman/research-centre/all/advertisement-roti-kapada-aur-makaan-11-october-1974-253) • [2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072100/). Made as a response to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's 1971 election slogan \"Roti, Kapda Aur Makaan\" and her broader Garibi Hatao (\"Remove Poverty\") agenda, the film follows Bharat, an educated but unemployed young man who struggles to feed his family in a corrupt society before finally resorting to crime[3](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-indias-crises-1970s/2959277/) • [4](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/features/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-is-it-still-relevant/) • [5](https://www.zee5.com/movies/details/roti-kapda-aur-makan/0-0-2531?campaign=14065487003). It was the highest-grossing film of 1974, collecting about Rs 100 million (Rs 10 crore) against a budget of Rs 13 million (Rs 1.3 crore)[3](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-indias-crises-1970s/2959277/) • [6](https://www.sacnilk.com/movie/RotiKapdaAurMakaan1974).\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Release | 18 October 1974 (India), Hindi, 159 minutes[2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072100/) |\n| Filmmaking roles | Manoj Kumar as writer, producer, director, editor, and lead actor (Bharat), for Vishal International Production[1](https://www.tuliresearchcentre.org/zeenat-aman/research-centre/all/advertisement-roti-kapada-aur-makaan-11-october-1974-253) |\n| Principal cast | Manoj Kumar (Bharat), Shashi Kapoor (Mohan Babu), Zeenat Aman (Sheetal), Moushumi Chatterjee (Tulsi), Amitabh Bachchan (Vijay), Prem Nath (Harnam Singh)[7](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072100/fullcredits/) |\n| Music | Laxmikant-Pyarelal; lyrics by Verma Malik and Santosh Anand; playback by Lata Mangeshkar, Mahendra Kapoor, Mukesh, and Narendra Chanchal[1](https://www.tuliresearchcentre.org/zeenat-aman/research-centre/all/advertisement-roti-kapada-aur-makaan-11-october-1974-253) |\n| Box office | Highest grosser of 1974, about Rs 100 million (Rs 10 crore) on a Rs 13 million (Rs 1.3 crore) budget[3](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-indias-crises-1970s/2959277/) |\n| Awards | 3 Filmfare wins and 11 nominations (1975): Best Director, Best Lyricist, Best Playback Singer (Male)[8](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072100/awards/) |\n| Political trigger | Indira Gandhi's 1971 election slogan \"Roti, Kapda Aur Makaan\" and the Garibi Hatao campaign[3](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-indias-crises-1970s/2959277/) • [4](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/features/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-is-it-still-relevant/) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot and characters\n\nAfter his father's retirement, the burden of supporting the Delhi-based family falls on Bharat, a graduate who is unable to find employment. He has two younger college-going brothers, Deepak and Vijay, and a sister of marriageable age, Radha[9](https://cinegraph.org/movies/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-1974). His frustration culminates in a scene in which he burns his university degree in his father's funeral pyre, an image repeatedly cited as an emblem of the dejection of educated Indian youth[4](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/features/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-is-it-still-relevant/).\n\nThe love triangle at the story's center turns on Bharat's ambitious girlfriend Sheetal ([Zeenat Aman](https://www.edgepedia.org/zeenat-aman)), who abandons him to marry the wealthy industrialist [Mohan Babu](https://www.edgepedia.org/mohan-babu) ([Shashi Kapoor](https://www.edgepedia.org/shashi-kapoor)), while Tulsi (Moushumi Chatterjee) provides solace to his wounded heart[4](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/features/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-is-it-still-relevant/). Vijay, played by Amitabh Bachchan, secures his own future by turning to crime; in one of Bachchan's most striking supporting roles, the character loses a hand in the 1971 war[10](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/50-yrs-of-roti-kapada-aur-makaan-a-reminder-that-some-things-dont-change/articleshow/109648797.cms) • [11](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072100/reviews). The subplot of the honest elder brother and the criminal younger brother anticipates the siblings-at-odds plot of *Deewaar*, released the following year[10](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/50-yrs-of-roti-kapada-aur-makaan-a-reminder-that-some-things-dont-change/articleshow/109648797.cms).\n\nThe cast also included [Prem Nath](https://www.edgepedia.org/prem-nath) as the sword-wielding Harnam Singh, a role he played after portraying the altruistic Khan Badshah in Manoj Kumar's *Shor* (1972), [Madan Puri](https://www.edgepedia.org/madan-puri) as Nekiram, Kamini Kaushal as Bharat's mother, Dheeraj Kumar as Deepak, and [Aruna Irani](https://www.edgepedia.org/aruna-irani) as Poonam, the mistress of a businessman[7](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072100/fullcredits/) • [4](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/features/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-is-it-still-relevant/).\n\n## Political and social context\n\nIn the late 1960s, the expression roti, kapda, aur makaan (food, clothing, and shelter) became part of India's political lexicon, and it rose to nationwide visibility in the 1971 general elections, when [Indira Gandhi](https://www.edgepedia.org/indira-gandhi)'s campaign and her Garibi Hatao platform were strongly identified with it.[12](https://www.downtoearth.org.in/amp/story/governance/beyond-growth-rethinking-roti-kapda-makaan-in-the-context-of-doughnut-economics) Manoj Kumar, whose earlier film *Upkar* (1967) had answered [Lal Bahadur Shastri](https://www.edgepedia.org/lal-bahadur-shastri)'s slogan \"Jai Jawan Jai Kisan,\" returned in 1974 to respond to this next slogan[3](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-indias-crises-1970s/2959277/) • [4](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/features/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-is-it-still-relevant/).\n\n**A melodrama of the 1970s crisis.** The film captures the desperation of a society struggling with unemployment, inflation, and corruption in the public distribution system; the 1970s were, as one retrospective puts it, the first time the rose-tinted glasses came off and the socialist fantasy collided with the country's harsh economic reality[3](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-indias-crises-1970s/2959277/) • [13](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapda-aur-makaan-a-film-as-relevant-in-indira-gandhis-time-as-it-is-in-modi-era/214812/). The character of Bharat, a recurring screen persona Manoj Kumar had established after *Upkar*, represents the embattled unemployed youth of the period[14](https://en.themooknayak.com/society/83-of-youths-jobless-in-india-but-why-isnt-unemployment-a-theme-for-indian-filmmakers-anymore). Scholars have read the film alongside *Upkar* as celebrating the soldier and the peasant as the country's major assets while reflecting the economic stagnation of the mid-1960s and the 1970s \"crisis of the state\"[15](https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/002/MR58534.PDF).\n\nThe film also stages its nationalism in deliberately inclusive terms: in the climax Bharat is joined by a good laborer, a good policeman, a good soldier, and a good businessman, and the cast includes a Muslim soldier friend, a Sikh saviour, and a Christian graveyard for a pivotal death scene[16](https://letterboxd.com/rohanshivkumar/film/roti-kapada-aur-makaan/). In one sequence, Bharat hears Indira Gandhi's Red Fort Independence Day speech and reconsiders the path of crime he has taken[16](https://letterboxd.com/rohanshivkumar/film/roti-kapada-aur-makaan/).\n\n## Music\n\nThe soundtrack, composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal with lyrics by Verma Malik and [Santosh Anand](https://www.edgepedia.org/santosh-anand), was among the year's most successful. On the 1975 Binaca Geetmala annual chart, the film achieved what one account calls a rare double crown: \"Mehngai Mar Gayi\" ranked first and \"Haye Haye Yeh Majboori\" second[3](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-indias-crises-1970s/2959277/). \"Haye Haye Yeh Majboori\", picturised on Zeenat Aman in the rain on a swing, was originally planned for [Moushumi Chatterjee](https://www.edgepedia.org/moushumi-chatterjee) but was reshot on Aman because Chatterjee was pregnant[3](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-indias-crises-1970s/2959277/). \"Main Na Bhoolunga\", sung by [Lata Mangeshkar](https://www.edgepedia.org/lata-mangeshkar) and Mukesh, recurs through the film as a reminder to the guilt-stricken Sheetal of her betrayal[4](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/features/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-is-it-still-relevant/). Mahendra Kapoor won the Filmfare Award for \"Nahin Nahin Bas Aur Nahin\"[8](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072100/awards/).\n\n## Box office and awards\n\nMade on a budget of Rs 13 million (Rs 1.3 crore), the film grossed about Rs 100 million (Rs 10 crore), making it 1974's biggest hit[3](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-indias-crises-1970s/2959277/). At the 1975 [Filmfare Awards](https://www.edgepedia.org/filmfare-awards) it won three awards from 11 nominations: Best Director (Manoj Kumar), Best Lyricist (Santosh Anand for \"Main na bhulunga\"), and Best Playback Singer, Male ([Mahendra Kapoor](https://www.edgepedia.org/mahendra-kapoor) for \"Nahin nahin bus aur nahin\")[3](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-indias-crises-1970s/2959277/) • [8](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072100/awards/). Manoj Kumar was also nominated for Best Actor, and Moushumi Chatterjee for Best Supporting Actress[8](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072100/awards/).\n\nThe film was shot in Delhi and in different studios in Bombay, and gave stunt director [Veeru Devgan](https://www.edgepedia.org/veeru-devgan) his first break as an action director[3](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-indias-crises-1970s/2959277/). [Amitabh Bachchan](https://www.edgepedia.org/amitabh-bachchan), whom Manoj Kumar had promised a role years before his 1969 debut, was cast here; a trivia note records that on the original posters his photograph was smaller than those of the other stars, but when the film was re-released ten years later his image dominated the posters[3](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-indias-crises-1970s/2959277/) • [2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072100/).\n\n## Legacy\n\nThe film was remade in Telugu as *Jeevana Poratam* (1986), starring Sobhan Babu, Vijayashanti, Radhika, and Rajinikanth, and was a hit there as well[3](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-indias-crises-1970s/2959277/). Manoj Kumar later named it, along with *Purab Aur Paschim* (1970) and *Kranti* (1981), among the three films of his banner that remain perennially popular[17](https://m.rediff.com/movies/report/the-must-read-manoj-kumar-interview/20250409.htm).\n\n**Continuing relevance.** Commentators have repeatedly returned to the film at moments when its subject resurfaced in Indian politics. Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, both major parties' promises of cash transfers and minimum income schemes were read as evidence that the country had changed little since the film's release[13](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapda-aur-makaan-a-film-as-relevant-in-indira-gandhis-time-as-it-is-in-modi-era/214812/). In 2024, marking its fiftieth year, the Times of India called it a strangely under-the-radar classic that remains \"a reminder that some things don't change\"[10](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/50-yrs-of-roti-kapada-aur-makaan-a-reminder-that-some-things-dont-change/articleshow/109648797.cms), and in 2026 ThePrint compared the film's slogan, then again in the news, with a contemporary prime ministerial austerity appeal[3](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-indias-crises-1970s/2959277/). The film's scenes of hyper-colored emotional excess, its shadows that speak of unemployment, and its construction site standing for the nation under construction have drawn renewed critical attention to its visual style as well as its message[16](https://letterboxd.com/rohanshivkumar/film/roti-kapada-aur-makaan/).\n\n## References\n\n1. [Kumar, Manoj (Producer), Roti Kapada Aur Makaan, 1974 | Advertisement, Star & Style, 11 October 1974, Tuli Research Centre for India Studies](https://www.tuliresearchcentre.org/zeenat-aman/research-centre/all/advertisement-roti-kapada-aur-makaan-11-october-1974-253)\n2. [Roti Kapada Aur Makaan (1974), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072100/)\n3. [Roti Kapada Aur Makaan captured India's crises in the 1970s, ThePrint (Ajay Mathur)](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-indias-crises-1970s/2959277/)\n4. [Subhash K. Jha, \"Roti Kapada Aur Makaan: Is it still relevant?\", Bollywood Hungama (2012)](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/features/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-is-it-still-relevant/)\n5. [Roti, Kapda Aur Makan, ZEE5 movie page](https://www.zee5.com/movies/details/roti-kapda-aur-makan/0-0-2531?campaign=14065487003)\n6. [Roti Kapda Aur Makaan (1974) box office, Sacnilk](https://www.sacnilk.com/movie/RotiKapdaAurMakaan1974)\n7. [Roti Kapada Aur Makaan (1974) full cast and crew, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072100/fullcredits/)\n8. [Roti Kapada Aur Makaan (1974) awards, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072100/awards/)\n9. [Roti Kapada Aur Makaan, Cinegraph](https://cinegraph.org/movies/roti-kapada-aur-makaan-1974)\n10. [Jai Arjun Singh, \"50 yrs of 'Roti Kapada aur Makaan': A reminder that some things don't change\", Times of India (2024)](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/50-yrs-of-roti-kapada-aur-makaan-a-reminder-that-some-things-dont-change/articleshow/109648797.cms)\n11. [Roti Kapada Aur Makaan (1974) user reviews, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072100/reviews)\n12. [Santonu Goswami, \"Beyond growth: Rethinking 'Roti, Kapda, Makaan' in the context of doughnut economics\", Down To Earth (2026)](https://www.downtoearth.org.in/amp/story/governance/beyond-growth-rethinking-roti-kapda-makaan-in-the-context-of-doughnut-economics)\n13. [Sharanya Munsi, \"Roti Kapda Aur Makaan: A film as relevant in Indira Gandhi's time as it is in Modi era\", ThePrint (2019)](https://theprint.in/feature/reel-take/roti-kapda-aur-makaan-a-film-as-relevant-in-indira-gandhis-time-as-it-is-in-modi-era/214812/)\n14. [\"Unemployment in Indian Cinema: A Look Back at Roti Kapda Aur Makaan and Other Films\", The Mooknayak](https://en.themooknayak.com/society/83-of-youths-jobless-in-india-but-why-isnt-unemployment-a-theme-for-indian-filmmakers-anymore)\n15. [Manufacturing Global Indianness (dissertation, Library and Archives Canada)](https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/002/MR58534.PDF)\n16. [Review by Rohan Shivkumar, Letterboxd (2025)](https://letterboxd.com/rohanshivkumar/film/roti-kapada-aur-makaan/)\n17. 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