![]() ![]() “We capture his brush with romance - it is pivotal to what Milkha Singh told us about how he wanted to establish himself as a man of integrity so that he could deserve love,” the director said. The aspect of love was something that Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra believes was important to bring out the story in its true form. However, in reality, the world record at that point was 45.2 seconds, set by Lou Jones of the United States of America, but the dramatization was necessitated by the need to give the film a narrative flow. The coach writes ‘45.9 seconds’ on a piece of paper, which becomes the legend’s sole target for the following year, and he eventually ends up running 45.73 seconds. ![]() The soundtrack, composed by famed music trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, narrates Milkha Singh’s story at various points in a dramatic manner – his romantic tryst at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and his subsequent steely determination to succeed– for example.ĭuring the latter sequence, the movie shows Milkha walking up to his coach, played by former cricketer Yograj Singh, demanding to know what the 400m world record was. ![]() “I think the whole team, Rakeysh, Farhan, and (writer) Prasoon Joshi did a fantastic job in making it a very motivational movie.”Īs is the case with any adaptation to the silver screen, ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ also took some cinematic liberty while dealing with certain facets. ![]() All his friends claimed that it was exactly what had happened during partition,” the Indian golfer added. I think my father and others of his generation relived what they went through at the time. It also portrayed the early part of Milkha Singh’s life in a realistic lens. "You have to be determined and if you want to do something, you have to work hard for it.” “The foremost message to the youth was that hard work pays and you have to have that belief system in place," Jeev Milkha Singh said. So much so that they signed away the rights to the film for a single rupee and asked the makers to donate some of the proceeds to the ‘Milkha Singh Charitable Trust’.Īnd they were satisfied with the output as well, as the movie brought out Milkha Singh’s mantra of hard work. The golfer is a big fan of Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and when the latter approached the family with his idea, they were overwhelmed. “I was involved in the process like choosing the director and making sure what kind of message needs to be conveyed to the youth and the elderly,” Jeev Milkha Singh, a movie buff himself, had told. His son, the Indian golfer Jeev Milkha Singh was involved in the developmental stages. The movie sourced its material from Milkha Singh’s autobiography, which he co-wrote with his daughter. (Farhan Akhtar) 'Hard work pays' - A true story “I was also lucky to meet his family, who are very humble too.” Milkha Singh with Bhaag Milkha Bhaag actor Farhan Akhtar. He was in no hurry to get on with work and you learn a lot from that,” Farhaan said. “And Milkha ji took his time to speak to them, ask about their disciplines, motivate them and answer their questions. There were a few other athletes training at the grounds and they walked up to him to seek his blessings. “I remember an incident when he had flown down to Mumbai to watch me train. “He is a very down-to-earth, hospitable, and loving person,” Farhan Akhtar said about the ‘Flying Sikh’. Sport is incidental to that human.”Īnd the most essential thing that worked for the endearing vibe of the film was the warm nature of the protagonist himself. “This is not just a sports film, it is a human story. “His life as an athlete gave me a lot of impetus, cinematic value and energy, which I could not have got from any other story,” Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra had told Livemint in an interview. The director, for his part, believed what made the film tick was the fact it was approached as more than just a sports drama. The movie is based on Milkha Singh’s autobiography, ‘The Race of my Life’. The Bhaag Milkha Bhaag cast also includes Yograj Singh, father of former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh. The Bollywood biopic, one of the highest-grossing films at the box office that year, also starred Sonam Kapoor, Divya Dutta and Pavan Malhotra as some of the integral characters in the life of the Indian athlete. It’s why the story of Milkha Singh’s life was brought forth in the 2013 Bollywood biopic, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.ĭirected by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and starring Farhan Akhtar in the lead role, the Milkha Singh movie traced the journey of the champion runner from a 12-year-old escaping the horrors of partition to the star athlete he eventually became. However, not many knew much about him beyond that race. His fourth-place finish in the 400m broke the national record and made him one of Indian sport’s early heroes. Everyone in India knows Milkha Singh as the man who came the closest to touching history at the Rome 1960 Olympics. ![]()
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