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Nandita Das` `Manto` for Cannes

Bollywood actress-filmmaker Nandita Das` directorial "Manto," a biographical on controversial Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto, has made its way to the Un Certain Regard segment of the prestigious 71st Cannes Film Festival. The team is ecstatic. A historical period drama about Manto, who is known for his writings around the partition of India and Pakistan, is the only Indian film competing in the Un Certain Regard category of the gala, to be held from May 8-19.Das, who has been a jury member at the movie jamboree twice -- in 2005 and 2013 -- had in 2017  introduced "Manto" to the Cannes audience via "In Defence of Freedom," a prelude to the feature film. Earlier, Nandita- direced   debut "Firaaq," on the aftermath of the Gujarat riots, was also screened at Cannes.Nawazuddin plays the bespectacled Manto in the eponymous film.
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