In a stunning cameo that reeks of pain and trauma, Vinod Nagpal's Pali Chacha answers Diljit Dosanjh's Nirvair about why his generation doesn't speak of the scars of Partition: "If we ever expelled everything that happened to us, the only lesson you all would learn is of hatred and enmity." That's why throughout the film, he and his elder brother keep repeating the mantra: This world has ended, don't look back. But this world has left its poison, in its rivers, its earth, its people. And Main Vaapas Aaonga is a cry to forget that. A world in which so many have lost their homelands, from the people of Punjab and Bengal during Partition, to the people of Kashmir in the late 80s and early 90s, from wars in Ukraine to Gaza. The world is as bloody but of a different time, when a playful Keenu and a beautiful Jiya fell in love. He is the heartbroken Dilfigar, and she is the princess Mallika Dilfareb, characters borrowed from Munshi Premchand, and as full of promise and passion. It is Punjab on the eve of Partition and a union between a Sikh and a Muslim is unthinkable. So we will convert to Christianity, says the innocent Keenu/Dilfareb.