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| Directed by | Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra |
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| Produced by | Viacom 18 Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra |
| Written by | Prasoon Joshi |
| Starring | Farhan Akhtar Sonam Kapoor Meesha Shafi Dev Gill |
| Music by | Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy |
| Cinematography | Binod Pradhan |
| Editing by | P. S. Bharathi |
| Studio | Viacom 18 Motion Pictures |
Rating: 8.2/10 - 15,476 votes
This is the true story of the "Flying Sikh" - world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh -- who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.
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The film starts in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where a coach says "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag!", and the story is taken back to the memories of the childhood days of a young boy which haunted him, resulted in him dropping to fourth. Partition of India in 1947 caused chaos which resulted in mass religious violence in Punjab in British India, killing the parents of Milkha Singh (Farhan Akhtar). He reaches Delhi and later meets his sister there. Living in impoverished refugee camps, Milkha soon makes friends and survives by stealing with his friends. He falls in love with Biro (Sonam Kapoor) but she asks him to live a life of honesty. Milkha finally finds himself in the army where he gets noticed by a Havaldar (Sergeant) after he wins a race in which top 10 runners will get milk, two eggs and excused from exercise. He gets selected for service commission where he gets miffed and also gets beaten up by senior players whom he had defeated earlier, on the day before selection of Indian team for Olympics. In spite of being injured he still participates in the race, overcoming his pain he wins the race thus breaking the national record.
During the Melbourne 1956 Olympics he gets attracted to the granddaughter of his Australian technical coach, and after a frolicking night in a bar he has a one-night stand with her. The following day he feels exhausted from the previous night's activities and loses the final race. He realizes his mistake. Suffering from guilt he even slaps himself in front of a mirror. On the flight back to India he asks his coach what the world record is for the 400m race and learns that it is 45.90 seconds. He trains hard with a firm determination and wins in several places. He then breaks the world record for the 400m race with the dashing speed of 45.80 seconds. Then Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India at that time convinces him to lead the Indian team in Pakistan for a friendly race. In Pakistan he misses the press conference and goes to his village where in a flashback it is shown how his parents were murdered and the last words of his father were "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag!" He starts crying and is comforted by a boy who turns out to be his childhood friend's son. In the games, initially the Pakistani favourite is winning, but Milkha takes the lead eventually overtaking opponents one by one, taking a convincing lead and winning both the race and respect of the two nation's people. The Pakistani president, General Ayub Khan, impressed by his effort gives him the title "The Flying Sikh". Jawaharlal Nehru also declares a day in the name of Milkha as "National Holiday" as desired by Milkha himself.
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Scene 1: The sun is setting, it's raining and a boy is running in what is pictured as Pakistan. The boy is a Sikh in the newly-carved Islamic republic and his village is under attack by Pathans. The boy's father screams, run Milkha run.
Scene 2: Some time later, the kid returns to his gutted yet wet house to find the bodies of his parents and the rest of the family. The kid screams and runs to the corpses but slips on the bloodied floor.
Later on in the film, Milkha slips yet again at an important moment when the massacre in Pakistan forces him to turn around. The tragedy ends in Pakistan when his friend tells him that it's not people but circumstances that are bad. His friend's son asks him if he is the same Milkha who runs.
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is the story of that same 'Flying Sikh' Milkha Singh but is bogged by detail in the first half. The second eliminates this issue. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is the same director who gave us Rang de Basanti and comes across as the director who livens up every moment. Prasoon Joshi's script keeps a close grip on the emotion of the story.
Farhan Akhtar's acting could leave one rejoicing.
The flashback of the story shows a Sikh boy growing up in Multan. He moves to Delhi after Partition with his sister. He steals cola to make a living. Here, he falls for Bira, who lives in a refugee colony in Shahdara and makes up his mind to win her, and is enlisted.
Here begins his race. First for the greed of an extra glass of milk and escaping parade, then to wear the India blazer and subsequently to have the world at his feet for running. This race comes to an important turn in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, where he is unable to survive in the first round of the 400m sprint. He understands that the race is not as simple as it seems.
Then comes the drive, which he lives with and four years later, he reaches 1960 Rome Olympics after winning the Asiad and Commonwealth Games among many other championships, and all eyes are on him. After all, he holds the world record. But here amid the noise of that evening, he turns around and loses.
But life does not end at the loss. Milkha overcomes this fear in a race in Pakistan.
The film is 3 hours 7 minutes long. At first, one wonders how it will pass. The first half could have been tightened but perhaps the filmmaker's stubbornness becomes evident.
Even songs like Maston ka Jhund and the title track power the film but some songs could have been snipped. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy bring Prasoon Joshi's lyrics to life with their music.
Go, run with Milkha. It just maybe worth it.
Scene 2: Some time later, the kid returns to his gutted yet wet house to find the bodies of his parents and the rest of the family. The kid screams and runs to the corpses but slips on the bloodied floor.
Later on in the film, Milkha slips yet again at an important moment when the massacre in Pakistan forces him to turn around. The tragedy ends in Pakistan when his friend tells him that it's not people but circumstances that are bad. His friend's son asks him if he is the same Milkha who runs.
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is the story of that same 'Flying Sikh' Milkha Singh but is bogged by detail in the first half. The second eliminates this issue. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is the same director who gave us Rang de Basanti and comes across as the director who livens up every moment. Prasoon Joshi's script keeps a close grip on the emotion of the story.
Farhan Akhtar's acting could leave one rejoicing.
The flashback of the story shows a Sikh boy growing up in Multan. He moves to Delhi after Partition with his sister. He steals cola to make a living. Here, he falls for Bira, who lives in a refugee colony in Shahdara and makes up his mind to win her, and is enlisted.
Here begins his race. First for the greed of an extra glass of milk and escaping parade, then to wear the India blazer and subsequently to have the world at his feet for running. This race comes to an important turn in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, where he is unable to survive in the first round of the 400m sprint. He understands that the race is not as simple as it seems.
Then comes the drive, which he lives with and four years later, he reaches 1960 Rome Olympics after winning the Asiad and Commonwealth Games among many other championships, and all eyes are on him. After all, he holds the world record. But here amid the noise of that evening, he turns around and loses.
But life does not end at the loss. Milkha overcomes this fear in a race in Pakistan.
The film is 3 hours 7 minutes long. At first, one wonders how it will pass. The first half could have been tightened but perhaps the filmmaker's stubbornness becomes evident.
Even songs like Maston ka Jhund and the title track power the film but some songs could have been snipped. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy bring Prasoon Joshi's lyrics to life with their music.
Go, run with Milkha. It just maybe worth it.
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