Nandita Das Film Manto Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui
The trailer of Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s ‘Manto’, which is written and directed by acclaimed actress Nandita Das, released on Independence Day today.
Manto is a biopic of the Urdu short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto, who chronicled the rigors of India’s struggle for Independence and the horrors of Partition. His writings are stark in their chronicling and they often led to him being tried for indecency.