New Delhi, June 22 -- 'Main Vaapas Aunga' (MVA) is an emotionally poignant film centred around the cataclysmic 1947 partition of the erstwhile Punjab province and it explores the trauma and horror of that tectonic tragedy through three generations: Keenu, the now 95 year old Sikh patriarch (played with aplomb by Naseeruddin Shah), his grandson Nivi (Daljit Dosanjh who is very good) and the younger Keenu - the college kid in 1947 Sargodha (kudos to Vedang Raina) - who is in love with Jiya (Sharvari), his Muslim sweetheart.

Keenu and his younger brother Pali have lived through the August 1947 Hindu-Sikh-Muslim pogrom that devastates the family and the visuals are intense. My wife Ira was dabbing her tears while I fought mine in vain.

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