muvi-fan-73 Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography: Condition after partition, rural scenes, sincere love, friendship, coach – athlete relationship, discipline, hard work of athlete, etcetera all have been pictured well. I would deduct half a mark because I think movie could have been shortened by 15 minutes or so in second half (3.5/5).Tone: The movie depicts story of a Sikh who after partition moves to India. He grows rogue (because of what he witnesses) until the woman he loves addresses him to become a respected person. This makes him to join army where he finds his athletic skills. The later part is how he keeps on winning and bringing pride to India. At the end, Pakistan gives him the title 'The flying Sikh' and movie ends (4/5).Music: Music is very good (4.5/5). It highly adds to charm of the movie.Acting: Acting is very good (4/5).Final Verdict: It is worth adding to your DVD collection [(4/5) (9/10)].

Prashast Singh Movie: Bhaag Milkha BhaagRating: 3.5/5I 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.

Rayan This movie could have been good, but the Australia scenes and its length make it an embarrassment.Firstly, Farhan Akhtar was indeed brilliant in his role, and he deserves all the kudos he gets.However, the Australian scenes were so lazy it actually boggles my mind. The film's perception of what 1956 Australia looked like is so terrible that I wanted to leave the movie. The women have hairstyles that did not exist, they were clothing that did not exist, flags are proudly displayed that did not exist (Malaysia and Iran's current flag).SPOILERS!!!A father would not let his daughter go out on a night on the town, let alone with an Indian. Beer bottles that were displayed did not exist. The idea of an Indian athlete sleeping with his coach's daughter is absurd in 1956 Australia. I can go on, but I'll leave it at this, no historical accuracy was even attempted. The length is far too long and shows lazy editing. I am not sure when India will demand its filmmakers to make some attempt at an accurate historical depiction of a scene, but this movie fails for me, for that reason.

pvsavla Wonder why such a movie was not made earlier? looks like another film called 'Paan Singh Tomar' has set the ball rolling for something that vast majority of Indians did not know about the life of its famous sportsmen, circumstances and history associated with it, like the Friendship games between India & Pakistan in BMB, which leaves some hangover in the end, with vibrations that will be resonating for a long time. Besides sports, there is so much associated with this film, like the aftermath of partition between India and Pakistan and its effects, creating innumerable victims, whose lives got shaped for worse. Had it not been for the army and sports that embraces Milkha Singh, we would have seen another Paan Singh Tomar like personality that Milkha Singh could have turned into. Hats off to Rakeysh Mehra and its producers for bringing this real life story on a celluloid screen for everyone, especially India's citizens, who would have been deprived otherwise to see this historic episode, which would have remained hidden. The song and dance in the bar reminded one of a similar song from 'Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara'. One or two slow numbers could have been avoided to make the film bit shorter. Overall it was a good blend of history and main stream Bollywood movie. Farhan Akhtar definitely deserves 2013's best actor award.