Nawazuddin Siddiqui transforms into Manto in first look from the film
Nawazuddin Siddiqui channels short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto in the first poster of the Nandita Das-directed film where his penetrating gaze captures the attention.
Nawazuddin, who is essaying the titular role in the movie titled “Manto”, appears lost as he carries the writer’s signature dishevelled hair with elan.
The sepia-toned poster resembles a pamphlet with few Urdu scribblings spread across the canvas.
A red-coloured broad brushstroke mars the portrait of Nawazuddin’s Manto, perhaps to symbolise the bloodshed associated with the Partition that deeply affected the “Thanda Gosht” writer.
The title appears in a broken font to suggest the fragile state of mind that the author harboured during the division of India and Pakistan.
The first look of this feature fil...