Partition, South Asian Cinemas and Manto: Film Screening and Talk
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Contributed by : Afzal Ahmad
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Please join us this Saturday, Oct 08 at 2pm at the South Asia Institute for a screening of biographical film Manto and a discussion after! Rini Bhattacharya Mehta will talk about Partition, South Asian cinemas and why Manto is still relevant today.
Manto is a 2018 Indian biographical film based on the life of the prominent author Saadat Hasan Manto, written and directed by Nandita Das. Manto is based on the 1940s post-Independence period of India. The film stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the title character of Indo-Pakistani, author and writer Saadat Hasan Manto.
Tickets include SAI's current exhibition Unbearable Memories, Unspeakable Histories: The Partition Anti-Memorial Project / Pritika Chowdhry.
Book now! http://ow.ly/je5q50KTJCI
Website: https://www.saichicago.org/calendar/manto
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