India, Sept. 15 -- As a Kashmiri, Vedang Raina had a special moment recently as he went back to his roots at the inaugural edition of the International Film Festival of Jammu Kashmir, where his film Main Vaapas Aaunga was chosen to close the festival last week. "I was going back to Kashmir only for the second time in my entire life and that place is very special to me as it is home. I wanted an excuse to go to Srinagar and when this opportunity came, it was the perfect match. To go there with a film of mine, my parents felt the proudest and emotional that I was doing something to give back to the people of where I come from," he says.

Main Vaapas Aaunga is about leaving your home and everything you have had, and the want to come back hom...