Begum Akhtar

Poussé par la rivalité qui l'oppose à un usurier enrichi, un aristocrate, grand amateur de musique, consacre ses derniers revenus à une soirée où se produiront les plus grands musiciens du moment. À cette occasion, il ouvre son salon de musique, fermé depuis la mort de sa femme et de son fils.

Roti made in the early 1940s inspired by the German Expressionism, is a real critique of Indian society with prophetic insight. It deals with two models - one of a millionaire, possessed by money and power in an industrial civilisation, the other of a tribal couple living in a primeval state of nature. The millionaire is saved by the couple after an air crash, the tribal couple emigrate to the city, do not find happiness and return. The millionaire is ruined in the city, tries futilely to find salvation among the tribal.

The story of Panna Dai, the valiant and magnanimous Rajput woman, who deliberately got her own baby son killed in order to save the heir to the throne.