Nawazudin Siddiqui is very excited to play the role of Pakistani writer Sadat Hassan Manto in Nandita Das’s film '“Manto”. Nandita will make film of the film of Manto, which also focuses on the time of partition. Recently at the Cannes Film Festival, Nnadita announced that Nawazuddin will play the title role in “Manto”. Nawaz said, 'Manto was a fmaous writer of 1940-50 times. I am excited to play him making this a rather interesting project. In Cannes Nandita discussed about it. I got ready for interesting challenge of doing a period drama.' Nawazuddin's 'Raman Raghav 2.0' was shown in cannes, which is based on Mumbai’s notorious serial killer Raman Raghav. Nawazuddin was applaud for this film. If sources are to be believed then Nawazuddin has started the prep for the film. Nandita and Mir Ali Husian has written this film.