“My stories are mirrors for society to see itself,” asserts author Saadat Hasan Manto (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), on trial for obscenity. Dramatizing Manto’s struggles as he excoriates humanity during the ...

Nandita Das is directing the biopic about writer Saadat Hasan Manto. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor HP is getting into the content business with Manto, a theatrical feature that marks the first time ...

Actor Shekhar Suman will be essaying the role of late Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto in Randhir Ranjan Roys play Ek Haan. Last year, Nawazuddin Siddiqui essayed the writer in the movie, Manto. Manto, ...

Actress Rasika Dugal, who plays Saadat Hasan Manto's wife in the forthcoming film 'Manto', is hosting the late Urdu writer's daughters in India. Read Less 's wife in the forthcoming film 'Manto', is ...

Nandita Das is the renaissance woman of Indian arts. She is an award-winning film actress (“Fire”, “1947: Earth”) and writer-director (“Firaaq”), a theater playwright-director (“Between the Lines”), ...

After Shabana Azmi agreed to play Nargis’s mother, singer-composeractress-fi lmmaker Jaddanbai, Nandita Das has now roped in Shabana’s husband, veteran poet-lyricist-screenwriter Javed Akhtar After ...

This biopic of celebrated — and castigated — Urdu short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto is stately, but too staid for his provocative writing. “Manto” could garner support among the educated bourgeois ...