Bhag Milkha Bhag.. movie review

A film that makes you feel immensely patriotic, a film that makes you laugh and leaves you teary eyed, a film that touches your heart, and gives you an awesome actor named Farhan Akhtar. If you don't watch this film, you are missing out a lot. The ups and downs of the life of The Flying Sikh is a story of inspiration.

Milkha singh, the legend, who failed to win a medal in the Olympics because he looked back for a second while running...why did he do so? The film portrays his life and I believe nobody could have done a better job than Rakesh Omparkash Mehra, they need send this film to the Oscar this year. Dealing with a serious topic like riot and making us laugh with the comic situations in the army where Milkha and his fellow jawans compete for a glass of milk, the sensuous love scenes in Australia and the first love with the gao-ki chhori Sonam Kapoor which inspired him to become something,this maybe a long film but never leaves u bored.

 I won't discuss the film just some unforgettable pictures ..

Spoiler Alert:

Picture 1: When Milkha wins against those who had beaten him up with bandaged limbs, the determination in his face.

Picture 2: The asian games, where Milkha touches the finishing line rope first and defeats pakistan's sprinter Abdul Khaliq.

Picture 3: The riot scene where those butchers cut off his grandad's head who urged him to run and never look back, a memory that haunted him for the rest of his life. The child actor searching frenziedly  for his mother amongst the bodies covered in blood, and a child in the movie hall shouted "where is his mom"? The horrors of riot, why do humans turn into monsters?

Picture 4 : . The place where Milkha's elder sister got abused and raped by her husband and the teenagers laugh at each other, but child Milkha stares at the purdah in horror. Those who say marital rapes do not occur, perhaps need the innocence of a child's eye to see that violence which eyes enshrouded with customs cannot. And the people in the audience who sniggered got their slap alright when the child Milkhu beats up his sister's husband.. I loved, loved that scene! And I want to thank the director for sending out such a strong message against marital rape which Indian society lives in constant denial of.

Picture 5: When Milkha won the the final race at Pakistan and got a standing ovation and the title the Flying Sikh, when he looked at his past, the child in him running beside him and overcomes finally the horrors of communal violence, the blood stains of riot which had scarred him for his life.

I heard they have banned the film in Pakistan... but they shouldn't. Because those riots of 1947 those are reality, Pakistan cannot live in denial. But the end humanity wins and amidst all the hatred in the world there is still a ray of hope , I am sure pakistanis would have got the beautiful message as well.

Only thing I didn't like is that they could have omitted explicit kissing scenes in Australia, then this could have been for family audience and kids as well.  And songs and dances like "hawan karenge" .. it is too typical bollywoody masala for this kind of film... it is unnecessary!

I can watch this film many a times, a film which even people of the older generation will enjoy, from which the youth can learn a lot.

See u again, till then take care! :)