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| Directed by | Ketan Mehta |
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| Screenplay by | Ketan Mehta |
| Story by | Saadat Hasan Manto |
| Based on | Tob Tek Singh bySaadat Hasan Manto |
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| Starring | Pankaj Kapur Vinay Pathak |
| Cinematography | Raktim Mondal |
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| Music by | Anurag Saikia |
Production company | Maya Movies |
| Distributed by | ZEE5 |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Toba Tek Singh is an Indian film based onSaadat Hassan Manto's short story of the same name. The short film is written and directed byKetan Mehta and produced by Shailja Kejriwal. It starsPankaj Kapoor andVinay Pathak. It was released onZEE5 on 24 August 2018.[1]
The story takes place just before the India-Pakistan partition in one of the oldest mental asylums in undivided India. Situated in Lahore, it was home to Hindu, Muslim and Sikh patients who were left behind by their uncaring families. Friendships were thick between the patients who had nobody but each other for company. Each had a story that made for an interesting tale but none quite like Bishan Singh. The story of his journey from sanity to madness stemmed from the village he came from,Toba Tek Singh. Now all he does is stay awake every day and night and such has been the case for the last 10 years. But what happens when partition causes him to leave the country he has known to be home in his sane and insane state of mind? It is a story of displacement and how painful it is even for the people who are not in their senses in a worldly way. Irrespective of who you were and what state of mind you were in, partition had nothing but pain for people who experienced it and this is what this film based on the poignant tale by celebrated writer Saadat Hasan Manto, examines.