The legendary Indian athlete survived more than five decades, but the legend and legacy of the ‘Flying Sikh’ will live on forever. He also represented India in the 19 Olympics and was bestowed the Padma Shri in 1959. His timing of 45.6 sec at the Italian capital remained the national record for 38 years before Paramjeet Singh broke it in 1998. The legendary athlete is a four-time Asian Games gold medallist and the 1958 Commonwealth Games champion but his greatest performance remains the fourth-place finish in the 400m final of the 1960 Rome Olympics. The authenticity of details and perfect portrayal of Milkha Singh by Farhan Akthar is simply marvellous. I can say this is the best biopic Bollywood has ever made. Milkha was admitted to PGIMER on June 3 after his oxygen levels dipped at home following treatment at the Fortis hospital in Mohali for a week. Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is an outstanding biopic. The couple were suspected to have contracted the infection from a house help. Milkha’s 85-year-old wife Nirmal, who had also been infected by the virus, passed away at a private hospital in Mohali on Sunday. The Padma Shri awardee, who was nicknamed ‘The Flying Sikh’ for his accomplishments, was 91 and is survived by his golfer son Jeev Milkha Singh and three daughters. That is true inspiration.Milkha Singh, one of independent India’s biggest sporting icons, ace sprinter, died on Friday after a month-long battle with COVID-19. Watch this film to realise greatness doesn’t lie in winning but in picking up the gauntlet. It’s brutally honest in telling a great sporting story. It has great visuals thanks to Binod Pradhan’s cinematography and some very good special effects. Sonam Kapoor in a brief appearance tugs at your heart strings as well. Pawan Malhotra matches Farhan’s brilliance. Divya Dutta breaks your heart and warms it up with equal ease. Dalip Tahil actually looks like Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. But alas the director chooses otherwise.ĭespite the makers’ best attempts to botch the dramatic impact of BMB, this film still packs a solid punch. The music was good enough to be used as an effective background tool. The songs are great but they really didn’t need to be choreographed and placed in between the narrative. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra makes a silly special appearance and that’s just one scene. There are too many loose scenes that do nothing more than act as comic fillers. And that chiselled physique may look gimmicky but it only adds to the character.īut what BMB needed was actual and serious editing. Farhan is the sole reason you believe in Milkha’s story. His training, his hard work and his efforts to look like an athlete and to be the sprinter have paid off. Shots of him sprinting are authentic to perfection. He’s not acting, he’s being Milkha Singh. The credit of reliving Milkha Singh’s journey must go to Farhan Akhtar. That is what Bhaag Milkha Bhaag does well. They’re perhaps the most relevant pieces of sporting history and they deserve to be told with conviction to a generation that would do well to learn something from it. He was the international athlete of his time. He conquered the sprinting track in 1958. What the Flying Sikh achieved in his lifetime was more than just milestones. Director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and writer Prasoon Joshi present the human and emotional value of Milkha Singh’s achievements. Yes it shows Milkha Singh’s sporting achievements but it doesn’t portray him like a clichéd cinematic hero. It’s a solid biopic drama one that doesn’t unnecessarily glorify its subject. Had those histrionics been avoided this would have been the film to watch.īut take nothing away from the impact of Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. It presents the ethos of Milkha Singh to great effect but in its whopping 3 hour 10 minutes run time it employs too many unnecessary dramatic, humour and entertainment elements to distract you from one of the most important sports stories in this nation’s history.
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This movie is both incredibly inspirational and tedious. That’s one piece of silly humour you won’t even find in Khushwant Singh’s joke books. So where you have the inspirational “Chirian to mein baaz tudaun, gidran to mein sher banaun, sawa lakh se ek ladaun, tabhe Gobind Singh naam kahaun” (I’ll make a sparrow fight a falcon, I’ll make lions out of hyenas, I’ll make one man fight a million warriors and only then will I be called the true guru, Gobind Singh) you also have this rather embarrassing exchange: Stella (Milkha Singh’s Australian love interest) asks “Are you guys relaxing?” to which Milkha (Farhan Akhtar) says, “No! Myself Milkha Singh, 400 meters”. Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Pawan Malhotra, Divya Dutta, Sonam Kapoor, Prakash Raj and Dalip Tahilīhaag Milkha Bhaag employs Guru Gobind Singh’s famous words and a sad old Sardaar joke with equal conviction.
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