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Watching the trailer, it becomes clear why. Set against the backdrop of Partition, Batwara 1947 features Sunny Deol as a compassionate Muslim man in newly-formed Pakistan. Shabana Azmi plays an elderly Hindu woman who refuses to abandon her family home in Pakistan despite the growing communal unrest around her. Sunny's character takes it upon himself to protect her from angry mobs. In one of the trailer's biggest moments, he calls her a mother before delivering a punchy dialogue: 'Har insaan ka pehla mazhab maa hai.' A massive cutout of Sunny Deol in his signature intense avatar stood at the venue, while the film's poster carried the line: 'In times of hatred and fear, he chose courage.' Based on Asghar Wajahat's acclaimed 1989 play Jis Lahore Nai Vekhya, O Jamya E Nai, the film is directed by Rajkumar Santoshi who is collaborating with Sunny Deol after nearly three decades, following hits like Ghayal, Damini and Ghatak.