In Bombay's seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto makes the difficult choice of leaving his beloved Bombay. In Lahore, he finds himself bereft of friends and unable to find takers for his writings.
Genres:
Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Saadat Hasan Manto
Rasika Dugal as Safia
Tahir Raj Bhasin as Sunder Shyam
Feryna Wazheir as Nargis
Javed Akhtar as Abid Ali Abid
Chandan Roy Sanyal as Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi
Rishi Kapoor as Film Producer
Inaamulhaq as Hamid
Ranvir Shorey as Ishar Singh
Rajshri Deshpande as Ismat Chugtai
Ila Arun as Jaddanbai
Divya Dutta as Kulwant Kaur
Paresh Rawal as Pimp
Tillotama Shome as Prostitute
Shashank Arora as Shaad Amritsari
Bhanu Uday as Ashok Kumar
Sadat Pervez as Krishan Chandar
Nazma Ali Shaikh as Sarita
Ashwini Giri as Sarita's mother
Purab Kohli as Kifaayat
Swanand Kirkire as Shahab
Chittaranjan Tripathy as Anwar
Vihaan Das Maskara as Boy on the bar
Nishith Dadhich as Director
Sunil Kamath as Cameraman
Priyanka Misal as Princess
Vedieka Dutt as Auditioning Girl 1
Mruga Umrania as Auditioning Girl 2
Jean-Pierre Le Calvez as Englishman at counter
Lacey Haines as English woman at station
Zorawar Shukla as Anglo-Indian Passenger
Rusi Mistry as Irani Cafe Owner
Takesh Singh as Rajindar Singh Bedi
Sadat Shamsi as Krishan Chander
Madhurjeet Sarghi as Manto's sister - Nasira Iqbal
Manjula Sanjay Shettigar as Hameeda
Abhinay Banker as Shoe Shop Owner
Chirag Modi as Shoe shop owner's brother
Anika Tiwari as Nighat 2
Bhanu Uday Singh as Ashok Kumar
Nancy Thakkar as Suraiyya
Feryna Wazheir as K. Asif
Raghav Dutt as Naushad
Mahabir Bhullar as Shyam's uncle
Kulbir Badesron as Shyam's aunt
Bachan Pachera as Street food vendor
Sanjay Galsar as Young man
Gurdas Mann as Sakina's father - Sirajuddin
Nilesh Parmar as Volunteer 1 - Refugee camp
Palkesh Agrawal as Volunteer 2 - Refugee camp
Shraddha Suthar as Sakina
Kalpana Gargekar as Nurse - Refugee camp
Nisarg Trivedi as Doctor - Refugee camp
Khushi Hajare as Nighat 3 (as Khushi Sidhant Hajare)
Garima Tiwari as Zakia Jalal
Inaamulhaq as Hamid Jalal
Shahnawaz Pradhan as Moderator
Rajan Thakkar as Transgender
Murzban Vatcha as Parsi neighbor
Govind Pandey as Inspector
Rajeev Bharadwaj as Naseer Anwar
Dharmendra Gupta as Arif Abdul Mateen
Neeraj Kabi as Man at the tea stall
Danish Husain as Arshad Zaidi
Vijay Varma as Ansaar Shabnam Dil
Vinod Nagpal as Bishan Singh
Nassar Abdulla as Officer - asylum
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