Actor Adnan Siddiqui has opened up about his family’s history during the partition of 1947, after watching the Indian film “Main Vaapas Aaunga,” saying that its the story of longing and return felt like his own family’s journey.
Siddiqui shared his reaction in a note on his social media. “Watched ‘Main Vaapas Aaunga’ last night with my whole heart breaking in real time,” he wrote, describing how the film’s themes of home and belonging stayed with him.
He explained that the story felt personal because it echoed what so many families went through when British India was divided in 1947. “It was my family’s story like so many others’ too on both sides of the border,” he said, calling it a promise his ancestors had carried with them.
What followed felt like more than coincidence to him. Soon after watching the film, a man named ObaidUr Rahman, from Ghazipur in India, sent him a video of the haveli his forefathers once called home, in Pahetiya, a village in Uttar Pradesh. Siddiqui said that his father and grandfather had lived, laughed and grown up inside those walls before Partition forced the family to leave.
He described sitting with the video in stunned silence. “I sat there, tears streaming, watching bricks and walls and centuries-old windows that hold memories I have only ever inherited, not lived,” he added.
Siddiqui was born in Lahore, where his father had moved from Uttar Pradesh before the family later settled in Karachi.
He is known for his role in the Pakistani drama “Mere Paas Tum Ho” and made his Bollywood debut in the 2017 film “Mom.”
Main Vaapas Aaunga, directed by Imtiaz Ali, tells a story of relationships torn apart by displacement, set largely in Punjab during the Partition era. The film brought Naseeruddin Shah, Diljit Dosanjh, Sharvari and Vedang Raina together on screen and hit cinemas on June 12, 2026.
