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'Manto' release pushed until after World Cup
The release of one of the year's most highly anticipated films, Manto, initially set for 2014, has been delayed.
Speaking to Dawn, director Sarmad Sultan Khoosat, who had announced via Twitter in October last year that the film will release in December 2014, said: "The post-production work resulted in the delay and we'll now release the film post World Cup."
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Written by award winning playwright, Shahid Mahmood Nadeem, the film is based on the life of renowned literary figure Saadat Hasan Manto and has a stellar cast, including Sarmad himself in the lead (playing Manto), with Saba Qamar, Sania Saeed, Mahira Khan, Nimra Bucha, Nadia Afgan, classical dancer Suhaee Abro, Savera Nadeem, Yasira Rizvi, Hina Bayat, Arjumand Rahim, Faysal Qureshi, Rehan Sheikh, Shamoon Abbasi, Humayun Saeed, Irfan Khoosat, Akbar Subhani, Ali Sheikh and Adnan Jaffar, among others.
"The music is done by True Brew Records, with vocals by Meesha Shafi, Zeb, Javed Bashir and Ali Sethi," Sarmad had shared with Dawn in a previous interview. "Mohammad Hanif has also written a song for me [for the film]."
The film has also used poetry by Ghalib, Shiv Kumar Batalvi and Majeed Amjad.
No release date has yet been announced.
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good luck
fingers crossed!
would love to watch it
I am wondering why there are so many ladies are casted in one film.. Manto has only one wife
I want this movie to be release in India.I request the producer to find distributor's in India to release this movie,this movie surely gonna find huge success in India,specially in Delhi,Chandigarh,Mumbai and Lucknow circuit or may be open door for low budget class movie's from Pakistan.There are huge taker's of class movies in India and every month large number's of such low budget movies get release in different languages of India and too get's some decent profit's.
Should be an interesting film...Sarmad is made for this role....the movie is bound to be a classic
I recently read Manto saab's book. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest writers from sub continent. His take on human angle of 1947 partition was bone chilling. I am very curious to knw the persona of this great writer.
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most anticipated? I'm sorry but I haven't heard one word about this film in normal conversations with anyone. Apart from the reports on DAWN.com from time to time no one knows about this movie.