Stars from Another Sky: The Bombay Film World of the 1940s - Softcover

Manto, Saadat Hasan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143415360 ISBN 13: 9780143415367

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2012-07-05 Pages: 208 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books Saadat Hasan Manto. one of the greatest short story writers of the Urdu language. was also a film journalist and story-writer for the Hindi film industry in Bombay. As an insider he was privy to the most private moments of the men and women who have dazzled generations of audiences.In this series of sketches. Ashok Kumar. the screen idol of yore. emerges as a shy. yet brilliant actor. forever looking to flee the eager advances of his female fans; Nargis comes across as just another young girl looking for companionship among her peers before she steps on the ladder that will forever take her away from the comforts of an ordinary middle-class life; and Shyam the dashing. handsome hero is portrayed as a straightforward. flirtatious young man pining for the woman he loves. Manto also describes ...

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About the Author:

Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and the most controversial short-story writer in Urdu, was born on 11 May 1912 at Samrala in Punjab's Ludhiana district. In a literary, journalistic, radio scripting and film-writing career spread over more than two decades, he produced twenty-two collections of short stories, one novel, five collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, two collections of personal sketches and many scripts for films. He was tried for obscenity half a dozen times, thrice before and thrice after independence. Some of Manto's greatest work was produced in the last seven years of his life, a time of great financial and emotional hardship for him. He died several months short of his forty-third birthday, in January 1955, in Lahore.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0143415360
• ISBN 13: 9780143415367
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208