Rafiq’s voice caught when Heer translated a line that referenced the coin; his grandmother used to tuck the same coin into his palm. The courtyard, once only a place of passing, filled with shared history. They traced the poet’s life against their own family stories and began to suspect the poet might be Rafiq’s great-uncle — a man erased from family lore by the sharp cleave of Partition. Heer’s translations became detective work; Rafiq supplied oral fragments from relatives, and slowly the poet’s story stitched to Rafiq’s.
Though the story is set in Pakistan, no part of the movie was actually filmed there. It was primarily shot in bajrangi bhaijaan doble farsi