Portraying stereotypes
6 years, 3 months ago

Portraying stereotypes

The Hindu  

Nandita Das’s film Manto compelled me to think about the portrayal of writers in Hindi cinema. This is strange given that Hindi cinema is deeply indebted to the Progressive Writers’ Movement, and cannot be imagined without Saadat Hasan Manto, Ismat Chughtai and Kaifi Azmi, among others. Javed Akhtar’s father, Jan Nisar Akhtar, also wrote for several Hindi films. Manto also has a default position that writers like him ought to be venerated, which perhaps explains the wobbly, school-level textbook narrative of the film.

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