Uski Roti

Uski Roti English titles Others bread, Your bread is a 1969 Hindi film directed by Mani Kaul. It was Kauls first feature film, based on a short story of the same name by Mohan Rakesh, who also wrote the dialogue for the film. The film won the 1970 Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, and is considered a seminal work of the Indian New Wave.

The film was shot on location in a Punjab village. Still photographer Navroze Contractor helped Mani Kaul in his search for the right location. During this time, they also had long discussions on blackandwhite, lenses, light, etc. Later, Contractor was to be Kauls cinematographer for his third film Duvidha.Uski Roti marked a major departure from the conventions of narrative cinema, dispensing altogether with plot in the usual sense. Kaul also did not use any established film actors. There is little dialogue in the film. The dialogue is delivered in undramatic monotones, somewhat reminiscent of the films of Robert Bresson, whom Kaul acknowledged as a major influence. The camera, wielded by K. K. Mahajan, dwells on faces, hands and exteriors mud walls, a windswept highway, a guava orchard. The emphasis on hands is particularly Bressonian. In the words of Derek Malcolm, The film is not an orthodox narrative, dealing instead with silence, mood and imagery. In a 1994 interview, Kaul said, When I made A Days Bread, I wanted to completely destroy any semblance of a realistic development, so that I could construct the film almost in the manner of a painter. ........

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