Bhaag Milkha Bhaag-movie review

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra –director, producer- is like Sanjeev Kapoor, absolutely brilliant at stirring up a perfect soup using commercial as well as art elements just right! You’ve got those only-music- let -the-acting-speak moments; but they aren’t abstract enough to disrupt your connect with the movie-Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.

It is a real life inspired story of the brilliant athlete Milkha Singh with Farhan Akhtar in the lead.

The cinematography abides by any Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra movie standard,-amazing, dramatic and awe-worthy; we’ve seen similar work in Delhi 6 and Rang De Basanti from the very same talented conjurer, but no-one’s complaining Mr.Binod Pradhan.

P.S.Bharathi does a good job editing the movie with a gripping first half, only if the director had asked for a little more trimming. The second half though very good slows down in pace stretching the movie to 189 minutes! Screenplay by Prasoon Joshi is also fitting except that the to and fro motion makes the equilibrium point look cheesy or maybe the real life inspired story is intense enough that it belittles this trivial point. Story?  Well it is inspired with honest compassion and is beautifully written and well executed .There are either documentaries or movies based on real people, and movies either distorts the true events with the infection through fiction or just makes the story more appealing and this movie just gets it right with the latter .And this leaves us with nothing but sheer respect for the man!

The acting wagon is filled with incredible performances. Farhan Akhtar is fantastic, thanks to the makeup, dress and hair department along with his gruelling exercise regimen, he portrays an uncanny resemblance and enhances it with genuine depiction of the flying sikh. Pawan Malhotra as his beginner coach is just flawless, and Prakash Raj just wins the audience’s heart with his role .Sonam Kapoor’s Rs.11 cameo is sweet and Divya Dutta as Milkha Singh’s sister is beyond praises, she  does absolute justice to her character and has super chemistry with Farhan. Yograj Singh (national team coach) does well, but as far as Dalip Tahil is concerned (Prime minster), we’ve seen enough of him to believe him to be Jawarahlal Nehru on screen which is only funny. All the other supporting actors are pretty good.

Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy is wonderful with various numbers like ‘maston ka jhund' ,’mera yaar’ , ‘o rangrez’ and ’zinda’ ,but what is worth complimenting is the highly energetic, powerful and exceptional background score .

Watch it for-

1.       Brilliant representation coupled with apt music 2 .awesome acting 3.motivation (no seriously) 4. And Of course Farhan’s sculpture like body (boy oh boy,is it really him?!)
Rating-4/5