Movie: Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Rating: 3.5/5

I am not habitual of watching biopics but still I love to watch them. When I sat on to watch Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, I had good expectations that it would be the best biopic ever. I found that it was not the best, but a great film, which unfolds in a captivating manner.

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is a complete Farhan Akhtar film. He gives no chance to complain. His performance is the best I had seen in years and he does every scene with perfection. Director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra needs to be praised for choosing Farhan Akhtar as Milkha. Other actors, like Prakash Raj, Divya Dutta, etc do their parts well. The film's narrative is very good. The music too suits the film's flavour.

But still, a few things needed to be taken care of. The film is quite lengthy, and a number of scenes and songs could have been easily chopped off. If not the scenes of narrative, then the violent scenes could have been trimmed. Although it's a biopic, still you doubt how the Censor Board gave the film a clean U certificate despite of immense blood and gore. However, that's not an issue.

Overall, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is a true biopic that raises high standards of the Indian Cinema to an even higher level. Despite of its length and immense violence, it's watchable for the histrionics of Farhan Akhtar, who doesn't give even a single chance to blink.