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...