From the pain of partition to the highs of winning on the international arena, it is a journey that is set to come alive through celluloid.
From the pain of partition to the highs of winning on the international arena, it is a journey that is set to come alive through celluloid. Filmmaker Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra is to make a film on India's ace athlete, Milkha Singh, who narrowly missed a bronze medal in the 400m Olympics in Rome in 1960.u00a0u00a0
Prasoon Joshi, who made his debut as a co-screenplay writer with Delhi 6, would team up with Rakeysh in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.
Milkha, or the Flying Sikh as he is known, confirmed that a movie is being made but refused to say more over the telephone from his residence in Chandigarh. His wife said, "Milkha has been asked not to divulge details before the press conference announcing the movie today in Chandigarh."
The film is expected to be a mix of both, Milkha Singh the athlete and the man, who was fired up to succeed after he lost his parents in the partition of India and had a horrific childhood. Milkha was born in Lyallpur (now in Pakistan). He saw his parents being killed during the Indo-Pak partition massacre. Milkha, then 12,u00a0 escaped, hiding himself within corpses in a train to India.u00a0u00a0u00a0
The film is still in the scripting stage and casting of the film would be done only after the script is ready. The filmmakers are looking at a 2011 release.
Milkha Singh is currently based in Chandigarh and is Director of Sports, Punjab. His son, Chiranjeev Milkha Singh is doing well on the international professional golf circuit, though he too was into athletics earlier.
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