Farhan Akhtar too good but story needed polishing

Rating: 6/10 (22 July 2013)

I am not trying to relate this to Milkha Singh's real life. However, this was an attempt to portray Singh and narrate his life through a motion picture. To preserve the elements of Bollywood and to maintain the "larger than life" aspect, a number of unnecessary scenes and characters have been added. The ghee-gulping scene was terrible and could not be accepted. By any stretch of imagination, I did not find it possible for a man to do anything even close to that. Sonam Kapoor came and disappeared. She was not required in the story but as I said, was necessary for the Bollywood "chatak". The foreign girl and the sex scene could just not have been a part of the story. Other absurd things keep happening and God knows why IMDb rates the movie so high. Also, the story wasn't very long, and yet, it was stretched to 3hrs and 10mins. I must say that Farhan Akhtar has done an immensely difficult job. He was brilliant from the first scene to the last and i can well imagine the hard work that has gone into each of these scenes. I must say that if you are concerned with the relevance of the film with reality, forget it...you will hardly find any.