Mantostaan (transl. Manto’s land) is a 2017 Indian film directed by Rahat Kazmi. The film is based on the four short stories of the Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto.
Cast
Raghubir Yadav as Sirajuddin
Virendra Saxena as Milan Sahab
Sonal Sehgal as Kulwant Kaur
Shoib Nikash Shah as Eshar Singh
Aaditya Pratap Singh as Aaditya
Rahat Kazmi as Rabi Nawaz
Raina Baasnet as Sugra
Sakshi Bhatt as Sakina
Synopsis
The movie is based on the four stories of the Urdu Writer Saadat Hasan Manto. Mantostaan sheds light on the inhumane side of mankind. Set during the Indo-Pakistan partition in 1947, the movie highlights the retributive genocide between the religions, killing as many as 2,000,000 people and displacing over 14 million people.
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