You don't need patience to watch it, you just need a bit of spirit. The film clocks in at above 3 hours but I wouldn't cut out a single minute of it. It captures those moments of our history that we must never forget and gives a solemn catharsis in the end. I could hardly imagine what it would feel like to live through it but the stories can send shivers down any human spine. My grandparents who migrated from Pakistan don't have fond memories of the partition. The anti-Pakistan sentiment will always be seeped into our country's consciousness. While I wasn't a big fan of the political stance of the film and neither do I think the jingoism in this one will be my favorite thing about the film, it ends on a better note than how RDB ended. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra wowed the nation with Rang De Basanti (2006). My personal favorite is Mera Yaar, a ballad that is so much more than a love song. Arif Lohar and Daler Mehndi scream-singing on the soundtrack aches out each yell that Milkha lets out on the running track. The title track and Zinda will be huge hits with the youth. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy crown the film with songs that are inspiring and heart-wrenching. The specifics make this film more Indian instead of restricting it to a certain section of our secular society. The Punjab shown here isn't the Punjab we've seen in movies before, especially not the Yash Raj kind. The theth Punjabi never overshadows the Hindi common parlance to alienate the audience. After witnessing Vidya Balan's ghastly accent and horrible mess of a performance in Ghanchakkar, this was definitely a welcome watch. The Punjabi spoken in the film is also note-worthy. You can't ever take that seriously, can you? But when a film makes you do just that, you know you're watching damn good one. But there's one casting choice that just baffles me - Dalip Tahil as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Sonam Kapoor doesn't ham and keeps it simple. Every time they address him as "Milkhu, Milkhe or Milkhya", it just feels right. Divya Dutta plays the sister and Pavan Malhotra plays the coach.
The supporting performances form the heart of the film. During this entire acting tour-de-force, he also does a shimmy. Akhtar embodies Milkha to the point where you feel this Sardarji has been a Punjabi all his life. When done right, it is compelling to watch. Something that was last seen in Hrithik Roshan's performances. We will always need actors who put in passion into their work so much so that it shows. While we have actors like Ranbir Kapoor who sleepwalk through any role with ease and blow our minds doing so. Quite obviously, this is Farhan Akhtar's finest hour. It makes your heart soar with the patriotic vigor. It makes you cheer and applaud for the underdog. It makes you feel each run, each obstacle, each segment in his life. (It's also a musical, technically 4 genres) To me, it's one of those movies where I don't care how it's written or made. You could see the screenplay as problematic where it meanders from one point in his life to another but how many films combine 3 genres into a taut narrative? Prasoon Joshi faces this task and makes sure that the core is always cohesive.
Apart from being a biopic, it is also a sports film and a period film. The film chronicles his life and follows many biopic conventions.
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Here it is! The best Hindi movie of the year so far.īhaag Milkha Bhaag is a biopic on Milkha Singh - the Flying Sikh.
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