Sadat Hassan Manto
On Sadat Hassan Manto’s Birth Anniversary, IWMBuzz Revisits Nandita Das’s Biopic On The Poet-Activist-Reformist
Saadat Haasan Manto was a poet posing as a prose writer. He thought and responded to social stimuli like a true poet, When his best friend Shyam (the matinee idol of the 1940s who died young after falling off a horse) blurts out that during the post-Partition communal riots he would have killed any Muslim, including Manto, Manto knew it was time to quit India. When Nandita Das’s Saadat Haasan Manto leaves Mumbai for Lahore, the film and the protagonist falls into a melancholic, meditative mood mourning the passing of an era when the country and its people were spli | Click Here...
Rasika Dugal ecstatic to celebrate 10 years of acting in films with Manto at Cannes 2018!
Rasika Dugal, who’s been surprising everyone with her varied roles proving herself as a versatile actress with numerous projects is soon leaping into the big pool. The actress who made headlines last year when she was roped as the lead in Nandita Das’ much talked about biopic of Sadat Hassan Manto, is now making news again as her film in which she’s paired opposite Nawazuddin Siddiqui is headed to the very prestigious, Cannes Film Festival. The actress has been dabbling her acting skills not just in films but in various entertainment platforms including theatre, television and | Click Here...