Imtiaz Ali’s Main Vaapas Aaunga has seen a resurgence at the box office after a slow first week, and it’s all due to the audience’s push and word-of-mouth. As the Naseeruddin Shah, Diljit Dosanjh, Sharvari and Vedang Raina-starrer is now enjoying a good run, the team is basking in the success of it.
While Main Vaapas Aaunga focuses on a love story, it also tells the ordeal that people in Punjab had to go through during Partition. Ask Imtiaz Ali if he feels the film should be made tax free, especially in Punjab, and he says, “A lot of people have said that this is a story of Punjab, a story of India and also in a way of Bengal and other parts. If people feel that genuinely and if that comment of national interest is out, then there must be a process in these states to see if the film can be made tax free and we would be looking into it.”
Even though the film touches on the horrors of the Partition, it still tells it from a single point of view of Keenu, played by Vedang Raina. And Imtiaz reveals that it was his original vision. “I wanted to make this film from a very narrow point of view of this one romantic person, Keenu. Through his point of view, what he remembers, what he was thinking when he crossed over or when he wanted to go back to her, I retained that into the film. Everything has been picked up from that lens,” he says.
