mainly his short stories and letters, may “not be called a biopic.” Or, that’s how actor-director Sarmad Sultan Khoosat would like to describe it. At a promotional event of Manto, his latest offering ...

“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 ...

Jeff Manto remembers the moment well. After a 1-0 loss to eventual Philadelphia Catholic League finalist Neumann-Goretti on April 10, Manto thought to himself, "These guys are good." He told his ...

LAHORE: Intellectuals, writers and the civil society activists on Sunday paid rich tributes to short story genius Saadat Hasan Manto, who kept raising voice against extremism, terrorism, double ...

I may be a writer of obscene stories, a clown, but I am also a husband and a father. — Saadat Hasan Manto Nandita Das’s biopic focuses on the two main aspects of Manto’s life — anti-establishment ...

Nawazuddin Siddiqui's movie Manto too begins with a story which will make you crave to know 'what next?' And then enters the man himself, just as his loving wife Rasika Dugal is reading his story out ...

“Here lies buried Saadat Hasan Manto in whose bosom are enshrined all the secrets and art of short story writing. Buried under mounds of earth, even now he is contemplating whether he is a greater ...

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 ...