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The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.
Manto
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Sarmad Sultan Khoosat Sania Saeed Saba Qamar Adnan Jaffar Shamoon Abbasi Nadia Afgan Hina Khawaja Bayat Faysal Qureshi Danyal Adam Khan Tipu Sharif Arjumand Rahim Rehan Sheikh Savera Nadeem Nimra Bucha Irfan Khoosat Afraz Rasool Shakeel Hussain Khan Yasra Rizvi Mahira Khan Azfar Rehman Humayun Saeed Mohammed Hanif Suhaee Abro Vajdan Shah
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Sadat Hassan Manto
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Pakistan
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11 Sep 2015
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More of pak media portraying and focusing on the intellectuals such as manto, this was well needed.
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Manto - Masterpiece
My Rating : 9/10
> Acting Performances were powerful and incredible.... Sarmad Khoosat does his part very perfectly, his dialogue delivery was amazing and his expressions are fantastic.... Sanya saeed is a brilliant actress and here too she proves her skills.... Saba Qamar does her job brilliantly as always
> Story was very beautiful and executed very brilliantly...
> Direction was brilliant.... Way Life of manto is presented on frame is worth applause..
> BGM was intriguing.... And songs were brilliant...
> Camera work was damn good....
Definitely a MUST WATCH
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Critical analysis of one of Pakistan's most prominent writers,
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Thinking about it several months on I mostly remember a lot of scenes of Khoosat hectically spinning around in drunken crazes, and the inventive depictions of his stories. Extremely bizarre in places but possessed of a kind of fervid and frenzied spirit which impressed me. (But the whole soul-personification thing was really too much for me)
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Watched the longer version of 4 hours on YouTube, couldn't find the feature film version.
Not complaining though as the longer version gave a much deeper peek into the mind of Saadat Hasan Manto.Translated from by -
Best portrayal of Manto ever
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A timeless Pakistani classic.
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One of two relatively recent biopics of Urdu's most famous short story writer, one by Nandita Das in 2018 from India and this earlier effort from Pakistan (2015). Of the two, I found this one to be the better work with a thorough exploration of his work and art. However, neither film told his full story from birth to a tragic death at just 43. The stand out performance for me in this was actually Saba Qamar's masterful and seductive portrayal of Madam Noor Jehan -- although she was missing completely from Das' version.
If or when a biopic of Noor Jehan is made Saba Qamar should take the main role.
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