Thor- God of Thunder

Directed by	Kenneth Branagh
Produced by	Kevin Feige
Screenplay by	Ashley Edward Miller Zack Stentz Don Payne
Story by	J. Michael Straczynski Mark Protosevich
Based on	Thor by Stan Lee Larry Lieber Jack Kirby
Starring	Chris Hemsworth Natalie Portman Tom Hiddleston Stellan Skarsgård Colm Feore Ray Stevenson Idris Elba Kat Dennings Rene Russo Anthony Hopkins

At the center of the story is The Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.

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In 965 AD, Odin, king of Asgard, wages war against the Frost Giants of Jotunheim and their leader Laufey, to prevent them from conquering the nine realms, starting with Earth. The Asgardian warriors defeat the Frost Giants and seize the source of their power, the Casket of Ancient Winters.

In the present, Odin's son Thor prepares to ascend to the throne of Asgard, but is interrupted when Frost Giants attempt to retrieve the Casket. Against Odin's order, Thor travels to Jotunheim to confront Laufey, accompanied by his brother Loki, childhood friend Sif and the Warriors Three: Volstagg, Fandraland Hogun. A battle ensues until Odin intervenes to save the Asgardians, destroying the fragile truce between the two races. For Thor's arrogance, Odin strips his son of his godly power and exiles him to Earth as a mortal, accompanied by his hammer Mjolnir, now protected by an enchantment that allows only the worthy to wield it.

Thor lands in New Mexico, where astrophysicist Dr. Jane Foster, her assistant Darcy Lewis, and mentor Dr. Erik Selvig, find him. The local populace finds Mjolnir, which S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson soon commandeers before forcibly acquiring Jane's data about the wormhole that delivered Thor to Earth. Thor, having discovered Mjolnir's nearby location, seeks to retrieve it from the facility that S.H.I.E.L.D. quickly constructed but he finds himself unable to lift it, and is captured. With Selvig's help, he is freed and resigns himself to exile on Earth as he develops a romance with Jane.

Loki discovers that he is actually Laufey's son, adopted by Odin after the war ended. A weary Odin falls into the deep "Odinsleep" to recover his strength. Loki seizes the throne in Odin's stead and offers Laufey the chance to kill Odin and retrieve the Casket. Sif and the Warriors Three, unhappy with Loki's rule, attempt to return Thor from exile, convincing Heimdall, gatekeeper of the Bifröst—the means of traveling between worlds—to allow them passage to Earth. Aware of their plan, Loki sends the Destroyer, a seemingly indestructible automaton, to pursue them and kill Thor. The warriors find Thor, but the Destroyer attacks and defeats them, prompting Thor to offer himself instead. Struck by the Destroyer and near death, Thor's sacrifice proves him worthy to wield Mjolnir. The hammer returns to him, restoring his powers and enabling him to defeat the Destroyer. Kissing Jane goodbye and vowing to return, he and his fellow Asgardians leave to confront Loki.

In Asgard, Loki betrays and kills Laufey, revealing his true plan to use Laufey's attempt on Odin's life as an excuse to destroy Jotunheim with the Bifröst Bridge, thus proving himself worthy to his adoptive father. Thor arrives and fights Loki before destroying the Bifröst Bridge to stop Loki's plan, stranding himself in Asgard. Odin awakens and prevents the brothers from falling into the abyss created in the wake of the bridge's destruction, but Loki allows himself to fall when Odin rejects his pleas for approval. Thor makes amends with Odin, admitting he is not ready to be king; while on Earth, Jane and her team search for a way to open a portal to Asgard.

In a post-credits scene, Selvig has been taken to a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, where Nick Fury opens a briefcase and asks him to study a mysterious object, which Fury says may hold untold power. An invisible Loki prompts Selvig to agree, and he does.

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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013)

Directed by	Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
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.

PLOT

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.

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