
Saadat Hasan Manto

Safia

Sunder Shyam

Nargis

Abid Ali Abid

Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi

Film Producer

Hamid

Ishar Singh

Ismat Chugtai

Jaddanbai

Kulwant Kaur

Pimp

Prostitute

Shaad Amritsari
Ashok Kumar

Krishan Chandar
Sarita

Sarita's mother

Kifaayat

Shahab

Anwar
Boy on the bar
Director
Cameraman
Princess

Auditioning Girl 1
Auditioning Girl 2
Englishman at counter
English woman at station
Anglo-Indian Passenger
Irani Cafe Owner
Rajindar Singh Bedi
Krishan Chander
Manto's sister - Nasira Iqbal
Hameeda
Shoe Shop Owner
Shoe shop owner's brother
Nighat 2
Ashok Kumar
Suraiyya

K. Asif
Naushad

Shyam's uncle

Shyam's aunt
Street food vendor
Young man

Sakina's father - Sirajuddin
Volunteer 1 - Refugee camp
Volunteer 2 - Refugee camp
Sakina
Nurse - Refugee camp
Doctor - Refugee camp
Nighat 3 (as Khushi Sidhant Hajare)
Zakia Jalal

Hamid Jalal

Moderator
Transgender
Parsi neighbor

Inspector
Naseer Anwar
Arif Abdul Mateen

Man at the tea stall

Arshad Zaidi

Ansaar Shabnam Dil
Bishan Singh

Officer - asylum

Director
Sound Mixer
Visual Effects Producer
Production Manager
Costume Designer
Still Photographer
Visual Effects Producer
Line Producer
Foley Artist
Associate Producer

Director of Photography

Editor
Associate Producer
Line Producer

Screenplay
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Makeup Artist
Co-Producer

Original Music Composer
Production Designer
Visual Effects Supervisor
Line Producer
Associate Producer
Sound Designer

Sound Designer
Playback Singer

In Bombay's seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto makes the difficult choice of leaving his beloved Bombay. In Lahore, he finds himself bereft of friends and unable to find takers for his writings.