Manto

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.

Drama History

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

(Saadat Hasan Manto)

Rasika Dugal

(Safia)

Tahir Raj Bhasin

(Sunder Shyam)

Feryna Wazheir

(Nargis)

Javed Akhtar

(Abid Ali Abid)

Chandan Roy Sanyal

(Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi)

Rishi Kapoor

(Film Producer)

Inaamulhaq

(Hamid)

Ranvir Shorey

(Ishar Singh)

Rajshri Deshpande

(Ismat Chugtai)

Ila Arun

(Jaddanbai)

Divya Dutta

(Kulwant Kaur)

Paresh Rawal

(Pimp)

Tillotama Shome

(Prostitute)

Shashank Arora

(Shaad Amritsari)

Bhanu Uday

(Ashok Kumar)

Sadat Pervez

(Krishan Chandar)

Nazma Ali Shaikh

(Sarita)

Ashwini Giri

(Sarita's mother)

Purab Kohli

(Kifaayat)

Swanand Kirkire

(Shahab)

Chittaranjan Tripathy

(Anwar)

Vihaan Das Maskara

(Boy on the bar)

Nishith Dadhich

(Director)

Sunil Kamath

(Cameraman)

Priyanka Misal

(Princess)

Vedieka Dutt

(Auditioning Girl 1)

Mruga Umrania

(Auditioning Girl 2)

Jean-Pierre Le Calvez

(Englishman at counter)

Lacey Haines

(English woman at station)

Zorawar Shukla

(Anglo-Indian Passenger)

Rusi Mistry

(Irani Cafe Owner)

Takesh Singh

(Rajindar Singh Bedi)

Sadat Shamsi

(Krishan Chander)

Madhurjeet Sarghi

(Manto's sister - Nasira Iqbal)

Manjula Sanjay Shettigar

(Hameeda)

Abhinay Banker

(Shoe Shop Owner)

Chirag Modi

(Shoe shop owner's brother)

Anika Tiwari

(Nighat 2)

Bhanu Uday Singh

(Ashok Kumar)

Nancy Thakkar

(Suraiyya)

Feryna Wazheir

(K. Asif)

Raghav Dutt

(Naushad)

Mahabir Bhullar

(Shyam's uncle)

Kulbir Badesron

(Shyam's aunt)

Bachan Pachera

(Street food vendor)

Sanjay Galsar

(Young man)

Gurdas Mann

(Sakina's father - Sirajuddin)

Nilesh Parmar

(Volunteer 1 - Refugee camp)

Palkesh Agrawal

(Volunteer 2 - Refugee camp)

Shraddha Suthar

(Sakina)

Kalpana Gargekar

(Nurse - Refugee camp)

Nisarg Trivedi

(Doctor - Refugee camp)

Khushi Hajare

(Nighat 3 (as Khushi Sidhant Hajare))

Garima Tiwari

(Zakia Jalal)

Inaamulhaq

(Hamid Jalal)

Shahnawaz Pradhan

(Moderator)

Rajan Thakkar

(Transgender)

Murzban Vatcha

(Parsi neighbor)

Govind Pandey

(Inspector)

Rajeev Bharadwaj

(Naseer Anwar)

Dharmendra Gupta

(Arif Abdul Mateen)

Neeraj Kabi

(Man at the tea stall)

Danish Husain

(Arshad Zaidi)

Vijay Varma

(Ansaar Shabnam Dil)

Vinod Nagpal

(Bishan Singh)

Nassar Abdulla

(Officer - asylum)