Manto movie review in English: Under the direction of Nandita Das, film Manto can be described as a biopic. In this movie, you will see in the main character of Urdu poet and writer Saadat Hassan Manto (played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui) his wife, Safiya (Rasika Duggal) And daughter Nidhi lived in Bombay (Mumbai).