Toba Tek Singh is an Indian film based on Saadat Hassan Manto's short story of the same name.
[1] 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.
The story of his journey from sanity to madness stemmed from the village he came from, Toba Tek Singh.
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.