Every Indian must see this movie!

Rating: 9/10 (1 January 2014)

Wonder why such a movie was not made earlier? looks like another film called 'Paan Singh Tomar' has set the ball rolling for something that vast majority of Indians did not know about the life of its famous sportsmen, circumstances and history associated with it, like the Friendship games between India & Pakistan in BMB, which leaves some hangover in the end, with vibrations that will be resonating for a long time. Besides sports, there is so much associated with this film, like the aftermath of partition between India and Pakistan and its effects, creating innumerable victims, whose lives got shaped for worse. Had it not been for the army and sports that embraces Milkha Singh, we would have seen another Paan Singh Tomar like personality that Milkha Singh could have turned into. Hats off to Rakeysh Mehra and its producers for bringing this real life story on a celluloid screen for everyone, especially India's citizens, who would have been deprived otherwise to see this historic episode, which would have remained hidden. The song and dance in the bar reminded one of a similar song from 'Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara'. One or two slow numbers could have been avoided to make the film bit shorter. Overall it was a good blend of history and main stream Bollywood movie. Farhan Akhtar definitely deserves 2013's best actor award.