Imtiaz Ali on 'Main Waapas Aaunga': Finding Stories Amidst Partition

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New Delhi, April 6 A woman on her deathbed has lost all memory except for one: the doll she may have left in her home in what is now Pakistan. An elderly man remembers his teenage romance that never came to fruition. These "small stories" helped Imtiaz Ali create his Partition film, "Main Waapas Aaunga".

"I wanted to make a film about the Partition, but only if I had something unique to say. I didn't want to simply report an event," Ali told
 
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