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Jun 26, 2012, 6:03:23 PM (12 years ago)

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+'''Sadat Hasan Manto (1912-55)'''
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+Major Urdu writer and scenarist whose work
+has defined the literary and the filmic
+iconography of Partition (e.g. in his most
+famous story, Toba Tek Singh, cf. Manto, 1987),
+of the urban dispossessed and of the post-
+Independence political and bureaucratic ruling
+class. Often wrote diary or travelogue-type
+fictions with himself as observer or in
+conversation with his protagonist. A journalist
+in Aligarh, he went to Bombay to edit the film
+weekly Mussawar (1936). Joined Imperial as
+storywriter; in 1943 joined Filmistan, injecting
+some contemporary consciousness into its
+largely apolitical productions (e.g. Dattaram
+Pai’s Eight Days, 1946). Later, with Ashok
+Kumar, rejoined Bombay Talkies and in 1948
+migrated to Lahore to get away from the
+persecution of Muslims in Bombay. His
+published writings include 15 short-story
+anthologies, one novel (Baghair Unwan Ke,
+1940), a play (Teen Auratein, 1942), essays
+(Manto Ke Mazamin, 1942) and a famous
+autobiographical account of his years in films,
+Meena Bazaar (1962/1984). His work was the
+basis of the British TV film Partition (1987),
+followed by the publication of his Kingdom’s
+End and Other Stories; acclaimed by Salman
+Rushdie as the ‘master of the modern Indian
+short story’. Among the main films he scripted
+are Gidwani’s Kisan Kanya (1937), Dada
+Gunjal’s Apni Nagariya (1940), Shaukat
+Hussain’s Naukar (1943), Gyan Mukherjee’s
+Chal Chal Re Naujawan (dial), Harshadrai
+Mehta’s Ghar Ki Shobha (both 1944), Eight
+Days, J.K. Nanda’s Jhumke (st), Savak Vacha’s
+Shikari (dial; all 1946) and Sohrab Modi’s
+Mirza Ghalib (st; 1954).
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+[[Writer]]