Saadat Hasan Manto's two short plays 1. KHOL DO is one of the most famous and controversial stories by writer Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) . It is one of the masterpiece depicting the effects of violence during the partition of India on the people of the land. But unlike many others, Manto does not see the perpetrators as Hindu or Muslim, Hindustanis or Pakistanis, he just sees and depicts them as human beings with all their wilderness and barbarity.

UPAR, NICHAY AUR DARMIYAN

Even sixty years after it was written, ‘On Top, Under and In Between’ (‘Upar, neechay aur darmiyan’), a story by the Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto that invited the ire of a young Islamic Republic of Pakistan, brings to mind the perversity and complexity of free-speech controversies in India today. The story actually features one of Manto’s most discreet fictional narrators, almost proving that censors have much more lurid imaginations than the artists whom they would suppress.

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Darpan Theatre DARPAN Theatre was started in 2012 by a group of friends working in different sectors to follow their passion for acting and to use this art to create awareness about different unseen aspects of society. As debut, team has staged hard hitting play which is not so known to many of us, the life of DEVDASI in the SKITS competition organized by DRAMANON, Hyderabad in August’ 2012 and bagged first prize by judges choice. Since then, team has performed multiple plays of different genre via various theatre formats as required. We always try to bring performances with social message to spread the awareness about the subject we take in the play. Our moto is to "Spread awareness through art and entertainment".