Bhag Milkha Bhag...

Over the noise of running tap I heard the knock on the door, we had planned to go for Lootera before but my brothers wanted to confirm if alteration in plan could be made or not.
Surprisingly, I agreed and we went for Bhag Milkha Bhag...

Saw this amazing movie, 1st time I watched 1st day show! And no regrets...
Its worth watching.
After watching it you will respect any sports person more than that you did before. Purely, because it tells us what they go through and how they sacrifice so many things to reach that height, to get that success. That how much hard work it involves.

The story is about a small boy who ran away from his town in Pakistan to India while his family got assassinated by Pakistani during partition. How he use to study, smilingly with the rarest resources possible before partition. How smartly he manages to find his only sister in the mess of partition. His fight for his sisters dignity. How women were treated as asset and belongings than a human being, a wife, a better half! Yes, status of women in India has come a long way. We being lucky to have been born in this century.

How a person falls in love and learns to lead a right path to marry her with pride. But Indian parents couldn't wait and the heroin get married before he come back as an army man. Sad!
He ran for milk and egg. Then his passion reached next level for winning an Indian blazer lead him to run like an ostrich and stay awake like an owl. Falling short of time during day coz of parade sessions he cut his sleep but practiced running. Political involvement of senior players and their shrewd behavior to stop him from participating in qualifying race at army level couldn't stop him. As they say, you cannot steal someone's destiny. He wrote his own. He ran with bandage in his legs. He bleed but he runs and breaks national record.
His raw knowledge as an air traveller. His lack of English knowledge. His lost of control tried to drift him away from his dream, and he lost qualifying international match. As they say, sometimes failure teaches us more than a win!
He learnt self discipline is the key for success. He ran miles and miles by tying wheel around his waist. He practiced till his mouth bleed, continued even after that. He ran days and nights. He ran in sun and in the dark. He ran in dry and in rain. But he couldn't run away from his past. His families assassination in Pakistan was his deepest grieve that he had buried in past but it came out when his national pride collided with his emotions.
Dwelling in the past could never make you win the battle called life. He learned this and participated in the race for national peace between India and Pakistan. Won the race with his confidence, with all due respect. And as a true appreciation he got title of "FLYING SIKH" after winning this race at Pakistan!

P. S.: I broke my record of watching a sensible movie for 1st time in theatre. :D

Personally, except 2 scenes, movie is all appreciation from me.
Though, that doesn't mean that those were unnecessary stuffs...

I wish more such entertainment come up so that we may really know how people out there are actually working for their nations pride. How much hardship it takes to be a world champion. How much proud they might be feeling while representing their nation in the world.

It also brings in pride in your heart towards your nation your mother land which should be in our heart forever and not just on 15th August and 26th January.

Undoubtedly, it's about Milkha Singh but I would like to also highlight the hard work of the actor playing the lead, yes, Farhan Akhtar, it shows you from the very first look at him on the screen that how much he would have worked hard to play this role. His physique enviable. His acting appreciable.

While walking back to home, my brother exclaimed, we never thought of anything like this, being in sports, it's really proudy moment.
A usual thought you get after watching an inspirational sports movie. ;)
My brain was processing with some other thought and it was that there has to be some driving force to keep you running for your dreams. We need to find our own driving forces and keep running until we reach the end point of race. As they say participating is more important than winning. So keep running even if we reach late as reaching the destination is important than quitting, thinking that we could not be the winner.

Keep going is the point!

Bhag Milkha Bhag! A nice watch, after a long time...
Don't miss it...