A dramatic reading of the friendship between Ismat Chugtai and Saadat Hasan Manto,

Two of the most prolific writers of their era, they challenged traditional values and worn-out notions of a woman's 'place' in society attracting both bouquets and brickbast. Here they meet and give us an insight into how they looked at the world and what they made of it.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Award-winning Girish Pardeshi is a graduate in Acting from National School of Drama and has done several solos including Thanda Gosht by Manto, Pagal Ki Diary, Dedh Incha Upar and plays like Sangeet Saubhadra and When We Dead Awaken. Girish has played several challenging roles in Marathi,Hindi & Malyalam Films.

Aarti Tiwari trained at Pradeep Vaidya's Expression Labs and has a distinction in LAMDA's exams for speaking verse and prose and acting. She has acted in This and That by White Flag, a Baltimore based theatre group, and worked with Ben Rivers in Playback theatre apart from numerous roles including the award-winning solo Manshaa Ki Shaadi.