New Delhi, A woman on her deathbed has lost all memory but one: the doll she perhaps left in her home in what is now Pakistan. An old man remembers his teen romance that was never to be. It is these 'small, small stories' that helped Imtiaz Ali knit together his Partition film Main Vaapas Aaunga.
Imtiaz Ali talks about Main Vaapas Aaunga 'I never wanted to make a film on the Partition if I had nothing unique to say. I did not want to report an incident,' Ali told PTI about his latest film that reunites him with his 'Amar Singh Chamkila' star Diljit Dosanjh, longtime collaborators A R Rahman and lyricist Irshad Kamil.
It is a story about 1947 but told through the eyes of the youth of today. In that sense, Ali said, it is the story of a person but also of a nation.
When the battle is lost and won, what is it that remains? What is it that will remain in the mind of a person who is now unable to exit the stage of the world without making some change to the events of what happened in 1947?
Main Vaapas Aaunga, produced by Sameer Nair and Deepak Segal of Applause Entertainment, along with Mohit Choudhary and Shibasish Sarkar of Window Seat Films, releases theatrically on June 12.
