Manto (2015)
منٹو
The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.
- Date of release
- 2015-09-11
- TMDB
- 9.3 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 2h 7m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Director
- Sarmad Sultan Khoosat
Casting
- Sarmad Sultan Khoosat — Saadat Hasan "Manto"
- Sania Saeed — Safiya / Beghum Manto
- Saba Qamar — Noor Jehan
- Adnan Jaffar — Qudrat Ullah Shahab
- Shamoon Abbasi — Eishar Singh
- Nadia Afgan — Saugandhi
- Hina Khawaja Bayat — Baighum sahiba
- Faysal Qureshi — Radio Actor
- Danyal Adam Khan — Hamid Jalal
- Tipu Sharif — Shaukat Hussain Rizvi
- Arjumand Rahim — Nazneen
- Rehan Sheikh — Mian Saheb
Interesting facts
Manto is a 2015 Pakistani biographical drama film based on the life of Pakistani short-story writer Saadat Hassan Manto, starring Sarmad Khoosat in the title role. It was directed by Khoosat himself, produced by Babar Javed, and written by Shahid Nadeem, whose screenplay was adapted from Manto's short stories, particularly "Thanda Gosht", "Madari", "License", "Hatak" and "Peshawar Se Lahore". It also depicts his relationship with singer-actress Noor Jehan. The film was released on 11 September 2015, sixty years after Manto's death.
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