Fareeda Mehta's imagining of Saadat Hasan Manto's literary characters (including Manto himself) in contemporary Bombay (now Mumbai) is an interesting attempt at trying to capture the city's underbelly where people from all over the country migrate to try their luck. Manto's characters feel as fresh and real as they must have been in the 1940's when Manto considered Bombay his home before migrating to Pakistan after partition. Mehta's film lyrically evokes a sense of nostalgia for a city that was more comfortable in its diversity than perhaps it will ever be in the future.
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