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Main Vaapas Aaunga

Romance Drama Hindi


An elderly man remains haunted by a childhood romance and memories of love lost during the 1947 Partition of India. As he shares his story with his grandson, the past unfolds through memories of migration, longing, and a love that endures across generations.

Cast:Vedang Raina, Sharvari, Diljit Dosanjh, Naseeruddin Shah, Danish Pandor, Anjana Sukhani, Rajat Kapoor, Sanjay Suri, Manish Chaudhary, Vinod Nagpal,
Director:Imtiaz Ali
Writer:Imtiaz Ali, Nayanika Mahtani
Editor:Aarti Bajaj
Camera:Sylvester Fonseca
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All Guild Reviews of Main Vaapas Aaunga

Rich in emotion, but short on entertainment.

Fox in morning light

Rohit Khilnani | Bollywood Hungama

Fri, June 12 2026

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नसीरुद्दीन शाह की दमदार परफॉर्मेंस से आखिरी गेंद पर जीते इम्तियाज

Fox in morning light

Upma Singh | Navbharat Times

Fri, June 12 2026

इश्क की ज्यादातर अमर कहानियां अधूरी ही रही हैं। रोमियो-जूलियट, लैला-मजनू, हीर-रांझा और इन कहानियों पर सिनेमाकारों ने खूब दिल भी हारा है। उन्हें पर्दे पर भी खूब उतारा है। अब इसी कड़ी में अधूरे प्यार की एक भावुक कहानी है इम्तियाज अली की नई फिल्म ‘मैं वापस आऊंगा’। अपनी फिल्मों में प्यार के अलग-अलग रंग बिखरने वाले इम्तियाज अली ने इस बार भारतीय इतिहास के सबसे दर्दनाक अध्याय रहे विभाजन की पृष्ठभूमि चुनी है, जिसके बहाने उन्होंने इस प्रेम कहानी में जंग, विस्थापन, अलगाव के दर्द को भी पिरो दिया है। ‘लव आज कल’ के अंदाज में अतीत और वर्तमान में घूमती यह कहानी है, इशर सिंह ग्रेवाल उर्फ कीनू (नसीरुद्दीन शाह) की। 95 साल के ग्रेवाल साहब दुनिया को अलविदा कहने की कगार पर हैं, पर जाना उन्हें पाकिस्तान के सरगोधा है, क्योंकि यह कीनू (वेदांग रैना) वहीं पैदा हुआ, जवान हुआ, इश्क में पड़ा। इसलिए, डिमेंशिया के कारण यादद्दाश्त के धोखा देने के बावजूद उन्हें याद है तो बस अपना प्यार अफसाना उर्फ जिया (शर्वरी वाघ)।

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An astounding take on Partition trauma

Fox in morning light

Shubhra Gupta | The Indian Express

Thu, June 11 2026

This film doesn't belong to Diljit Dosanjh, but to Naseeruddin Shah’s superbly-judged performance, high-pitched yet never quite tipping into grating melodrama.

Two love stories spanning two eras is a running theme in Imtiaz Ali’s filmography. His latest, ‘Main Vaapas Aaunga’, a pre-Partition for ever-and-ever romance, juxtaposed against a commitment-phobic present-day couple—in which the girl and guy are doing the back-and-forth chancy-dancy thing, is also in the same zone. It also re-unites him with Diljit Dosanjh, the lead actor of their previous collaboration, Chamkila. Co-written by Ali and Nayanika Mahtani, the film opens with the Chandigarh-based 95-year old Ishar Singh Grewal (Naseeruddin Shah) desperate to get to Sargodha. His faculties are slipping, and he has no realisation that the town lies across the border, created in 1947 to carve India and Pakistan out of the subcontinent, leading to wholesale carnage and bloodshed.

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