Manto

Manto is a 2015 Pakistani biographical drama film based on the life of Pakistani short-story writer Sadat Hassan Manto, starring Sarmad Khoosat in the title role. It was directed by Khoosat himself, produced by Babar Javed, and written by Shahid Nadeem, whose screenplay was adapted from Manto's short stories, particularly "Thanda Gosht", "Madari", "License", "Hatak" and "Peshawar Se Lahore". It also depicts his relationship with singer-actress Noor Jehan. The film was released on 11 September 2015, sixty years after Manto's death. The full-length official trailer was released on 29 August 2015. The motion trailer along with film music was released on 6 August 2015. The TV series on the life of writer entitled Main Manto with the same cast and production, initially made in 2012, was aired in December 2015. Plot The story is about a 20th-century writer, Manto (played by Sarmad Khoosat), who grew up in the showbiz industry of Bombay (now Mumbai) and Lahore. It focuses the last seven years of the writer's life, during which he wrote some of his most controversial stories, such as "Thanda Gosht", "Toba Tek Singh", "License", "Upar, Neechay aur Darmiyan" and "Peshawar Se Lahore". For these, Manto had to face charges of obscenity thrice. Cast Sarmad Khoosat as Saadat Hasan Manto Sania Saeed as Safiya Manto Saba Qamar as Noor Jehan Danyal Adam Khan as Hamid Jalal Adnan Jaffar as Qudrat Ullah Shahab Shamoon Abbasi as Eishar Singh Aliee Shaikh as Khuda Bakash Tipu Sharif as Shaukat Hussain Rizvi Talha Mufti as Nawaz Arjumand Rahim as Nazneen (a Tawaif) Hina Khawaja Bayat as Begum Sahiba Rehan Sheikh as Mian Saheb Faisal Qureshi as Radio Actor Mizna Waqas as Minal Nadia Afghan as Saugandhi Savera Nadeem Nimra Bucha Irfan Khoosat Afraz Rasool Shakeel Hussain Khan as Manto's Doctor Yasra Rizvi as Balwant Kaur Qaiser Naqvi as Sardar Begum Mahira Khan as Madaran (appeared in screen credits and in the song "Kya Hoga") Azfar Rehman as a Passenger (appeared in screen credits and in the song "Kya Hoga") Humayun Saeed (cameo appearance in screen credits) Mohammed Hanif (guest appearance) Suhaee Abro (appearance in the song "Kaun Hai Ye Gustakh" in an opening scene) Vajdan Shah (appearance in the song "Kaun Hai Ye Gustakh" in an opening scene)