'''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’. 


'''Filmography
'''

Kisan Kanya (1938), dir. Moti B. Gidwani, prod. Imperial Film Company 

Apni Nagariya (1940), dir. Gunjal, prod. Hindustan Cine Tone

Chal Chal Re Naujawan (1944), dir. Gyan Mukherjee, prod. Filmistan 

Jhumke (1944/46), dir. J.K. Nanda, prod. Chitra Productions

Begum (1945), dir. Sushil Mazumdar, prod. Taj Mahal Pics

Naukar (1945), dir. Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi, prod. Sunrise Pictures

Aath Din/Eight Days (1946), dir. Dattaram Pai (uncredited Ashok Kumar), prod. Filmistan

Shikari (1946), dir. Savak Vacha, prod. Filmistan



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