Partition and the tenderness of early youth memories: Imtiaz Ali on ‘Main Waapas Aaunga’
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 Waapas Aaunga”. Partition and the tenderness of early youth memories: Imtiaz Ali on ‘Main Waapas 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 …
