Mantostaan movie review: A searing tale lost in translation

Mantostaan movie review: The film fails in translation: it is a forced construct, and comes off flat and stagey, both in treatment and performance.

Mantostaan movie review: The film fails in translation: it is a forced construct, and comes off flat and stagey, both in treatment and performance.

Mantostaan movie cast: Raghuvir Yadav, Virendra Saxena, Sonal Sehgal, Rahat Kazmi, Raina Bassnet , Shoib Shah
Mantostaan movie director: Rahat Kazmi
Mantostaan movie rating: 2 stars

The relevance of Sadaat Hasan Manto, and his stories, only seems to increase with each passing year. He wrote of a nation trembling on the cusp of Partition, which was cleaved into two in August 1947, and caused devastation and sorrow on an unimaginable scale.

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