Imtiaz Ali’s latest wistful romance reunites him with his Amar Singh Chamkila lead actor Diljit Dosanjh, music composer AR Rahman and lyricist Irshad Kamil. In Main Vaapas Aaunga, to love is to remember and to remember is to love.
Bradford resident Nirvair (Dosanjh) is lost between a job he doesn’t care for, a stand-up comedy side hustle he isn’t good at and a girlfriend (Banita Sandhu) whom he is unsure about. Back home in India, Nirvair’s nonagenarian grandfather is lost too, in the thickets of dementia.
Isher (Naseeruddin Shah) barely makes sense any more to his sons Iqbal (Rajat Kapoor) and Angad (Jaipreet Singh) and daughter-in-law Meher (Anjana Sukhani). Nirvair returns to decipher Isher’s ramblings, which lead back to Isher’s life in Sargodha in pre-Partition Punjab.
The ardour between the younger Isher (Vedang Raina) and Afsana (Sharvari) is already doomed. Partition is round the corner. Communal poison is spreading. Sikhs and Hindus are preparing to flee to India. There is dark talk of “outsiders” coming into Sargodha to foment trouble.
Isher, who’s more optimistic than a worried Afsana, pays no heed. When threatened by a group of Muslims led by Afzal (Danish Pandor), Isher plonks down on the ground and says, I am going nowhere.
Decades after that incident, Isher yearns for the lover, the...
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