Manto

Directed by Nandita Das

Written by Nandita Das

Cast Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Saadat Hasan Manto). Rasika Dugal (Safia). Tahir Raj Bhasin (Shyam). Nazma Ali Shaikh (Sarita). Ashwini Giri (Sarita’s mother). Neeraj Sood (Kishori). 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). Suhas Joshi (Swami ji). Rishi Kapoor (Producer). Vedieka Dutt (Auditioning Girl 1 (as Vedika Dutt)). 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). Rajshri Deshpande (Ismat Chughtai). Atul Kumar (Shahid Latif). Sadat Shamsi (Krishan Chander (as Sadat Sharma)). Paresh Rawal (Pimp). Tillotama Shome (Prostitute). Madhurjeet Sarghi (Manto’s sister – Nasira Iqbal (as Madhurjeet Sargi)). Manjula Sanjay Shettigar (Hameeda). Noor Khan (Rasheed). Abhinay Banker (Shoe Shop Owner). Chirag Modi (Shoe shop owner’s brother). Anika Tiwari (Nighat 2). Bhanu Uday (Ashok Kumar (as Bhanu Uday Singh)). Nancy Thakkar (Suraiyya). Ila Arun (Jaddanbai). Feryna Wazheir (Nargis). Sahil Vaid (K. Asif). Siraj Khan (Man at wedding procession). Raghav Dutt (Naushad). Mahabir Bhullar (Shyam’s uncle). Kulbir Badesron (Shyam’s aunt). Bachan Pachehra (Street food vendor (as Bachchan Pachera)). Galsar Sanjay (Young man (as Sanjay Galsar)). Gurdas Maan (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). Chandan Roy Sanyal (Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi). Khushi Hajare (Nighat 3 (as Khushi Sidhant Hajare)). Pari (Nuzhat). Garima Tiwari (Zakia Jalal). Inaamulhaq (Hamid Jalal). Anurag Arora (Jamal Hussain). Shashank Arora (Shaad Amritsari). Shahnawaz Pradhan (Moderator). Vijay Varma (Ansaar Shabnam Dil (as Vijay Verma)). Rajan Thakkar (Transgender). Murzban Vatcha (Parsi neighbor). Govind Pandey (Inspector). Jay Bhatt (Reporter). Sunil Sinha (Defense lawyer – Khalid). Rajeev Bharadwaj (Naseer Anwar). Dharmendra Gupta (Arif Abdul Mateen). Ranvir Shorey (Ishar Singh). Divya Dutta (Kulwant Kaur). Danish Husain (Arshad Zaidi). Alok Arora (Faiz Ahmed Faiz). Salim Arif (Judge Sayeed). Ashwath Bhatt (Prosecutor Qasim). Ahtesham Hussain (Man 1 – Clifton Bar (as Ehtesham Hussain)). Shadab Rahbar Khan (Man 2 – Clifton Bar (as Shadab)). Shanney Naqvi (Maulana Tahir). Javed Akhtar (Abid Ali Abid). Neeraj Kabi (Man at the tea stall). Sandeep Dhabale (Shyam’s friend 1 (as Sandeep Shridhar)). Neeraj Sharma (Shyam’s friend 2). Saharsh Kumar Shukla (Office clerk – Mehraj (as Saharsh Shukla)). Taran Bajaj (Inmate 1 – Asylum). Alok Gagdekar (Inmate 2 – Asylum (as Alok Gangdeker)). Vinod Nagpal (Sikh man). Nassar Abdulla (Officer – Asylum (as Nasser Abdullah)). Shaunak Vyas (Attendant – Asylum). Tarun Parmar (Young boy – Asylum) . Ashweenee Aher (Auditioning Girl). Cricknowle (Rahul). Sanjay Galsar (Young boy).Ahtesham Hussain. Pooja Kapadia (Self).Muhammad Usman Malik. Ghalsasi Omkar (Student). Vaishakh Ratanben (Volunteer 1)

Language Hindi. Urdu

Producers Sachin Agarwal. Faraz Ahsan. Sandrine Brauer. Prassanth Kumar Chandran. Nishith Dadhich. Nirang Desai. Sameer Dixit. Gayatri Gulati. Abhinav Mehrotra. Sanjeevkumar Nair. Jatish Varma

Production En Compagnie Des Lama. Filmsto. HP Studio