MANTO (2015) Official Movie Trailer - Geo Films

Manto (Urdu: منٹو‎) is an upcoming 2015 Pakistani biographical drama film based on the life of Pakistani short-story writer Sadat Hassan Manto, starring Sarmad Sultan Khoosat in the title role. Directed by Khoosat himself while produced by Babar Javed and written by Shahid Nadeem, whose screenplay was adapted from Manto's short stories particularly Thanda Gosht, Madari, License, Hatak and Peshawar Se Lahore, it also depicts his relationship with singer-actress Noor Jehan.[5] It is scheduled for release on September 11, 2015, after sixty years of Manto's death.

The full-length official trailer was released on August 29, 2015. The motion trailer along with film music was released on August 6, 2015. Initially made 2012 TV series on the life of writer entitled as Main Manto with same cast and production will be aired in December 2015.

A story of a 20th-century writer "Manto" (Sarmad Khoosat), who grew-up in the showbiz industry of Bombay (now Mumbai) and Lahore. It focuses the last seven years of writers life during which he wrote some of his most controversial stories, such as Thanda Gosht, Toba Tek Singh, Madari and Peshawar Se Lahore. For which Manto had to face charges of obscenity thrice