Incredible Milkha Singh

Rating: 8/10 (18 August 2014)

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013), Director : Rakesh Omprakash Mehra, Cast : Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor, Meesha Shafi, Divya Dutta, Pavan Malhotra, Yograj Singh and Prakash Raj.
Reviews: This summer before the starting of our academic session i had seen one of the masterpiece of all time ever made by the Bollywood world "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag".I had known the title of the movie since it released but never had the chance to watch, but then i saw the number of awards that it had got during IIFA 2014. I got surprised, since every now and then the title song of the movie gets played because every award had been stolen by this movie only.
This movie gets its inspiration from a script written by Prasoon Joshi based on the life of Flying Sikh 'Milkha Singh', an Indian Athlete who was a national champion, runner and an Olympian.
The movie get started with the 1960 summer Olympics in Rome, where a coach keeps on saying "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag". Then the movie ships back and forth in time. It goes to the Milkha's childhood and his traumatic and confused life. Childhood days of 'Milkha' always haunted him its because of the partition of India during British India in 1947 that leads to the religious riots and chaos, which leads to his parents death. Milkha met his sister in a refugee camp later and started stealing with his newly made friends. Soon he joined the camp, his running skills got noticed by the Hawaldar there and he convinced him for a race for the milk and bread, and he won. And this became the starting point of World known Milkha Singh.
Milkha Singh then won several races and became the top most athlete of the nation. Inspite of being injured he breaks the national record. Later he participated in several international competition and hoisted the flag of India there too. Sometimes he got distracted by the materialistic world. The Then prime minister Jawahar Lal Nehru confronted him to represent India in a friendly sports meet between India and Pakistan. There he went to his village and it reminded him of his parents death and the last words by his father "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag".
In the field, initially the Pakistan favorite was leading but then Milkha gets the lead eventually overtaking opponents one by one and finally won the race. Impressed by his efforts, the president of Pakistan gave him the name of "The Flying Sikh", and declared one day national holiday on his name.
Farhan Khan has done a great job in the movie making. He has played the character of Mikha Singh with full honesty and with great perfection. He also worked hard to achieve an athlete physique. But sometimes i do feel a bit of his own creation there, in that respect i will go with THE PAAN SINGH TOMAR for the acting of Irrfan khan was superb, but overall the movie BHAAG MILKHA BHAAG was best scripted and attracted lot of people.
Overall this movie is worth watching, its a very engrossing and inspirational movie and tribute to what great heights a man can reach with determination and a fierce inner desire to excel. There is nothing much I can really tell you except to go and see this movie. It would make a great watch for kids and youth as well.