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| name = Toba Tek Singh<br />
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| director = [[Ketan Mehta]]<br />
| producer = {{ubl|Shailja Kejriwal|[[Deepa Sahi]]}}<br />
| writer = {{ubl|Ketan Mehta|Udit Chandrau}}<br />
| screenplay = Ketan Mehta<br />
| story = Saadat Hasan Manto<br />
| based_on = {{Based on|[[Toba Tek Singh (short story)|Tob Tek Singh]]|[[Saadat Hasan Manto]]}}<br />
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| music = [[Anurag Saikia]]<br />
| cinematography = Raktim Mondal<br />
| editing = {{ubl|Udit Chandraul|Shailesh Gupta}}<br />
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| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2018|8|24}}<br />
| runtime = 73 minutes<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Hindi<br />
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'''''Toba Tek Singh''''' is an Indian film based on [[Saadat Hassan Manto]]'s short story of the same name. The short film is written and directed by [[Ketan Mehta]] and produced by Shailja Kejriwal. It stars [[Pankaj Kapoor]] and [[Vinay Pathak]]. It was released digitally on the video on-demand platform [[ZEE5]] on 24 August 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Filmmaker-Ketan-Mehta-Society-is-more-violent-and-polarised-now/articleshow/51192201.cms|title=Filmmaker Ketan Mehta: Society is more violent and polarised now|date=17 January 2017|website=timesofindia.indiatimes.com|access-date=25 June 2017}}</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
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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.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Pankaj Kapur]] as Bishan Singh/Toba Tek Singh<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/toba-tek-singh-movie-review-pankaj-kapur-disappoints-all-eyes-on-nawazuddin-siddiqui-s-manto/story-q2NdmA9JkFx0bucSBdtdyK.html|title=Toba Tek Singh movie review: Pankaj Kapur disappoints, all eyes on Nawazuddin Siddiqui's Manto|date=27 August 2018|website=Hindustan Times}}</ref><br />
* [[Vinay Pathak]] as [[Saadat Hasan Manto]]<ref name="auto"/><br />
* [[Chirag Vohra]] as Roshan Lal; Hindu Vakil<br />
* Gaurav Dwivedi as Surajmal<br />
* Nand Kishore Pant as Hamid<br />
* Ajay Kumar as Ittefaq Ali<br />
* Vijai Singh as Zoravar Singh<br />
* Vishwa Bhanu as Mansur Ahmed<br />
* Malkiat Rouni as Tara Singh<br />
* Daljit Singh as Mohammed Ali<br />
* Sheikh Noor Islam<br />
* Gilles Chuyen as Superintendent<br />
* Swami Sarabjeet as Fazaluddin<br />
* Navjot Kaur as Roop Kaur<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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[[Category:Saadat Hasan Manto]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in the partition of India]]<br />
[[Category:2018 films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian drama films]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in Lahore]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in psychiatric hospitals]]<br />
[[Category:Films based on short fiction]]<br />
[[Category:ZEE5 original films]]<br />
[[Category:2018 direct-to-video films]]<br />
[[Category:2018 drama films]]<br />
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