Earlier this year, Nawazuddin Siddiqui rattled his audience with the raw portrayal of Urdu iconoclast Saadat Haasan Manto in the biopic Manto. The film exposed the gaping wounds of religious intolerance, censorship, and the fight of the individual soul against powerful forces - pressing issues from the 1940s that are far from healed even today. In fact, Manto was famous for his crippling satires on the turbulent relationship between India and Pakistan. What was important for Manto was not nationalism or regionalism. He just wished for more humanity in this world.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui pulled off an exemplary portrayal of the writer in the film directed by Nandita Das and proved how relevant Manto still was in today's times of turmoil and disarray.
So it came as a rather unsettling surprise for many when the trailer of Thackeray, a biopic on Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray was released yesterday, with Nawazuddin playing the titular role. Thackeray was the Maharashtrian politician who founded the Shiv Sena, a right-wing Marathi ethnocentric party, active mainly in the western parts of the state. The party was established to counter the rise of "yandugandus" (a derogatory term for South Indians) and his war-cry "Uthao lungi, bajao pungi" reverberated through the country.
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