Plot
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 ... See full summary »
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 8.1/10 (1,625 voted)
Director:Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Storyline
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.
Trivia:
Milkha challenged Farhan Akhtar for a race when they met for the first time during their research for the film. See more »
User Review
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Rating: 9/10
Few critics, few including Rediff ones whom I look for some good
writing, have rated low to BMB. The reason they give is that movie
lacks coherence and clarity. Really? I think they should only rate
Hollywood movies because whoever thinks this movie is no good does not
know what Hindi cinema is. Farhan has done an awesome job, and if I say
awesome then it is not for his physique and dialogue delivery but for
the transformation, he has gone to become Milkha Singh. We as an
audience witness the physical stress and labor that an athlete as likes
of Milkha Singh undergo to become a 'flying Sikh'. Hindi cinema
celebrates the life of this living legend with songs and drama and
music. Rakesh Om Prakash Mehra has done a decent job, still; I fell he
could have done a lot better especially in the scenes of Milkha's
childhood memories. His attempt of giving the movie an epic convention
seriously affected the narrative portion. However, all this can be
sided by the grandeur of Farhan's effort. I would like to mention a
statement of one of the rediff users who wrote against critics who are
undermining the effect of this movie: "note that 400mtrs is a very
difficult race to run. it is at the border of quick races and long
jogs. after partition India did not have either the experience nor the
infra to produce runners for 400mtrs. So Milkha was a true champion in
every sense. If critics pull films like these down for abstract
reasons…we will forever have 20 goons flying in the air with one punch
from one man. Grow up critics."
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