Skip to main content
NTv Online

Art & Culture

Art & Culture
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Literature
  • Bangla Version
  • Archive
  • Bangladesh
  • World
  • Sports
  • Entertainment
  • Business
  • Comment
  • Education
  • Life
  • Health
  • Art & Culture
  • Election
  • বাংলা
  • Bangladesh
  • World
  • Sports
  • Entertainment
  • Business
  • Comment
  • Education
  • Life
  • Health
  • Art & Culture
  • Election
  • বাংলা
  • Bangla Version
  • Archive
Follow
  • Art & Culture
IANS
12 July, 2016, 20:13
Update: 12 July, 2016, 20:29
More News
CreateonTikTok Celebrates Closing Ceremony
Dhaka International Mobile Film Festival’s Media Partner NTV Online
Fashion design exhibition ‘Local International’ begins
‘Line of Ages’ print art exhibition begins in city
Monica Jahan Bose addresses climate change, uniting two communities of colour

‘Toba Tek Singh’ to bring curtain down on LIFF

IANS
12 July, 2016, 20:13
Update: 12 July, 2016, 20:29
A scene from the film Toba Tek Singh. Photo grabbed from the trailer of the film. Photo: NTV

Mumbai: Filmmaker Ketan Mehta’s ‘Toba Tek Singh’, based on one of legendary writer Saadat Hasan Manto’s stories, will be the closing movie at the London Indian Film Festival (LIFF), to be held from July 14-24. The director says the South Asian community will love the film.

‘Toba Tek Singh’ is one of the finest piece of literature on partition written by one of the greatest writers of our time Saadat Hasan Manto, and also a true representation of the dilemma most people faced during Indo-Pak partition.

‘We are very happy that it has been chosen as the closing film at London Indian Film Festival. I am sure the audience will love the film, especially the South Asian community,’ Mehta told IANS.

Said to be a moving and at times joyous version of the story, the movie is produced by the Zeal For Unity project by Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited.

It features award winning and acclaimed actor Pankaj Kapur in a career-defining performance as Bishen Singh, a Sikh inmate of a mental institution, who hasn’t slept for 15 years and always asks the same question ‘Where is Toba Tek Singh?’, the name of his home village.

The new warden, played by Vinay Pathak, takes delight in Bishen and the other patients’ eccentricities. However, with the partition of India and Pakistan it seems that the world outside is more insane than the folk inside, and the institution must give up all its Hindu and Sikh inmates. Singh is marched to the new border, but in which country is his beloved home—that forms the story.

Most Read
  1. DIMFF: 24 Jury Festival will be held at ULAB
  2. CreateonTikTok Celebrates Closing Ceremony
  3. Dhaka International Mobile Film Festival’s Media Partner NTV Online
  4. A classical music evening: Remembering Ustaad Baba Aalauddin Khan
  5. Amazon publishes Ranzit Sarker’s book
  6. Kabiguru Rabindranath’s 158th birth anniversary today
Most Read
  1. DIMFF: 24 Jury Festival will be held at ULAB
  2. CreateonTikTok Celebrates Closing Ceremony
  3. Dhaka International Mobile Film Festival’s Media Partner NTV Online
  4. A classical music evening: Remembering Ustaad Baba Aalauddin Khan
  5. Amazon publishes Ranzit Sarker’s book
  6. Kabiguru Rabindranath’s 158th birth anniversary today

Follow Us

Alhaj Mohammad Mosaddak Ali

Chairman & Managing Director

NTV Online, BSEC Building (Level-8), 102 Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue, Karwan Bazar, Dhaka-1215 Telephone: +880255012281 up to 5, Fax: +880255012286 up to 7

Browse by Category

  • About NTV
  • NTV Programmes
  • Advertisement
  • Web Mail
  • NTV FTV
  • Satellite Downlink
  • Europe Subscription
  • USA Subscription
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Contact

Our Newsletter

To stay on top of the ever-changing world of business, subscribe now to our newsletters.

* We hate spam as much as you do

Alhaj Mohammad Mosaddak Ali

Chairman & Managing Director

NTV Online, BSEC Building (Level-8), 102 Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue, Karwan Bazar, Dhaka-1215 Telephone: +880255012281 up to 5, Fax: +880255012286 up to 7

Reproduction of any content, news or article published on this website is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved