Superb

Rating: 9/10 (3 December 2013)

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is the life story of Milkha Singh,"The flying Sikh",Milkha Singh was a 400m running champion from India,his 4th place finish in the Rome Olympics is immortalized on the big screen in this motion picture.
Farhan Akhtar who portrays the role of Milkha does a fantastic job.Farhan Akhtar - a successful director before this - should be lauded for his excellent and superlative effort. From the physical aspect to the expressions and the nuances intrinsic to an athlete, every detail is bang on the money; also captured with élan from Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. Farhan Akhtar has done so well in getting the physical transformation right one cant help but wonder: was Milkha actually so muscled up in his hey-days?
One of the reasons why Milkha lost out on the gold was because he looked back for a instant of a second after leading three fourth of the way in Rome.Was this because of the tragic incident he had to go through when he was young ? the partition of India and Pakistan , and the atrocities people had to suffer then. This background is captured well.
"Slow motion Angreza" is the song Milkha sings to his love in Melbourne, ironically we as audience do feel the movie is running in slow motion at times, nevertheless the movie is really really good. Milkha might have been high on Whiskey during this song , but the movie zooms home the point that Milkha was also high on his running. Bhaag Milkha Bhaaag. http://madmadreview.blogspot.in/?view=sidebar