An interview with the music composer of Nawazuddin Siddiqui-starrer Manto is sprinkled with heart-warming lines of its poet-protagonist, Saadat Hasan Manto. Sneha Khanwalkar makes it evident that in her first collaboration with Nandita Das, she was taken by the director's method and vision. She discusses recreating poetry from a bygone era, and meeting a special singer in the process of doing so.

Edited excerpts from the interview: