India-Pakistan war has always been an evergreen subject of our films. Recently, films like Dhurandhar etc. filled the audience with excitement and enthusiasm. Every Indian likes to see Pakistan getting defeated on the silver screen as well as on the border. This is the reason whether it is Sunny Deol’s Gadar or Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar – both the films achieved record success at the box office. But this aspect also cannot be denied that the relationship between India and Pakistan is not limited to war only. The pain of partition resurfaces again and again in both the countries. Almost eight decades of India-Pakistan partition are about to be completed but the pain of partition in cinema does not go away. On one side comes Dhurandhar and on the other side comes twenty-one.
In fact, two more such films of this year are in special discussion, in which the story of the partition of 1947 is being shown afresh. First film – directed by Imtiaz Ali i will come back And the second one is- Partition 1947, whose director is- Rajkumar Santoshi. Main Wapsar Aaunga, which is being shown in theaters from June 12, features veteran actors like Diljit Dosanjh and Naseeruddin Shah, while the film Bantwara 1947 can be seen from August 14. Imtiaz Ali and Diljit Dosanjh are coming together for the second time after Amar Singh Chamkila in 2024.
I’ll be back in the pain of an old love letter
As soon as the trailer and songs were released, the discussion about I will be back started. Knowing the fact that Imtiaz Ali is a serious filmmaker, an atmosphere had already started building in favor of the film. Now as soon as its story came on screen, it made the audience emotional. The division into two parts was only of a country, not of human emotions.
I’ll Be Back is a period romantic drama that explores love and belonging through three generations. The story of the film starts from the present and goes in flashback to the period of Partition. Naseeruddin Shah He is in the role of a 95 year old man who has memories of his love within him. The film also stars Sharvari Wagh and Vedang Raina.
Sunny Deol will be seen again in Partition 1947
You all will remember Dharmendra’s last film ‘Ikkis 1’ which released in the beginning of January 2026. Although it was a story of bravery of martyred Second Lieutenant Arun Khetrapal based on the Battle of Basantar in 1971, but Dharmendra’s character lives on with the help of memories. Madanlal Khetrapal visits his ancestral village inside Pakistan and remembers his childhood before partition, along with his former girlfriend. These memories make him emotional. The pain of partition stings here too.
The tragedy of Partition and its emotional memories are going to be seen in more detail in Partition 1947, which is going to be released on the occasion of Independence Day. The film has been produced by Aamir Khan Productions. The director is Rajkumar Santoshi and the lead actor is Sunny Deol. The success of this pair at the box office has its own history. Along with Sunny Deol, actresses like Preity Zinta and Shabana Azmi are also there. The story of Partition 1947 is based on the famous play ‘Jin Lahore Nayi Vekhya, O Jamya e Nayi’ by famous Hindi writer Asghar Wajahat. This drama is already quite popular. Now this film is eagerly awaited.
The pain of partition has been shown on screen since 1949.
If we go back a little, we can see a long list of many such films based on the India-Pakistan partition in history, which have achieved the same success as the India-Pakistan war films. Such films started only two years after independence. In 1949 itself, the film Lahore directed by ML Anand was released, in which Nargis and Karan Dewan acted. In the story of the film, the hero goes to Pakistan to take his wife. This is considered to be the first film on the difficulties arising out of India-Pakistan partition.
After this, there is a long list of many such films in which the pain of partition has been depicted. For example, Raj Kapoor’s 1960 Chhaliya, Ashok Kumar’s 1961 Dhartiputra, 1973’s Garm Hawa directed by MS Sathyu, Deepa Mehta’s 1947 Earth, Pamela Rooks’s Train to Pakistan in 1998 which was based on Khushwant Singh’s book, Anil Sharma directed 2001 blockbuster Gadar-Ek Prem Katha starring Sunny Deol, Amrish Puri. And Ameesha Patel acted, while Pinjar etc. based on Amrita Pritam’s novel in 2003 are notable films.
Pinjar was directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi. Manoj Bajpayee and Urmila Mantondar played the lead roles in it. In this connection, the TV serial based on famous writer Bhishma Sahni’s novel Tamas, which was directed by Govind Nihalani, cannot be forgotten. In the decade of nineties, Tamas serial had gained immense popularity in every household.
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