Bhaag
Milkha
Bhaag
is
a
movie
that
has
created
history
and
brought
into
light
the
life
story
of
the
athlete
Milkha
Singh.
Now
the
director
of
the
movie
Rakeysh
Omprakash
Mehra
has
shortened
the
length
of
the
movie
for
its
international
release.
He
has
reduced
the
playing-time
of
the
biopic
by
30
minutes
and
said
the
new
version
is
suitable
for
a
no-interval
format.
The
film
about
the
'Flying
Sikh'
played
by
Farhan
Akhtar
was
loved
by
all
in
India
and
the
only
hurdle
for
international
release
was
the
length
of
the
movie
which
was
more
than
three
hours.
Now,
this
will
no
more
be
a
problem.
Cutting
short
the
footage
was
not
an
easy
job
for
the
makers
of
the
movie
because
even
the
songs
in
the
movie
carried
forward
the
plot
so
it
was
a
long
process.
"Bharathi
and
I
haven't
forced
cuts
into
the
narration.
We
wanted
to
bring
the
length
down
to
a
no-interval
format,
since
there
is
no
tradition
of
breaking
a
film
into
two
halves
in
the
West.
To
eliminate
the
interval-point
for
the
international
version,
we
had
to
re-edit
the
film," explained
Mehra.
At
the
home
front,
Bhaag
Milkha
Bhaag
opened
to
positive
response
and
if
the
viewers
relished
the
narration,
they
thoroughly
appreciated
Farhan
Akhtar's
endeavour
to
play
Milkha
convincingly
in
the
successful
movie,
which
raked
in
approximately
Rs.55
crore
in
the
first
week.
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Bhaag
Milkha
Bhaag