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Target Audience: Those who like quintessential Bollywood offerings having full on masala
Parallels of the Movie: Paan Singh Tomar, Lakshya, Gadar
Tagged a biopic by its team, BMB awfully looks like a movie laced with best of the commercial treatments Bollywood garnishes its offerings with to satiate the cravings of masala movie lovers. It is everything but a serious cinema on the life of an unsung Hero, Milkha Singh.
A modern day Akhtar(pun intended) plays yesteryear Milkha Singh while flashing his eight pack abs and flirting with three ladies(Sonam, Meesha and Rebecca) at every opportune moment. I have never eulogized fuRUN’s dialogue delivery and BMB too couldn’t change my perception. That being sad, however , I couldn’t resist myself getting high when faRUN scampered on the race track. Kudos to this 40 year old guy, a father of two children. I wished the whole movie was such a scintillating experience.
However, a convoluted and overly dragged first half having loopy flashbacks made me experience such harrowing moments which Milkha Singh would have felt while preparing himself for his sprints. Although the second half is a bit more interesting thanks to its attention towards Milkha’s achievements, it still has several redundant scenes which could easily have been chopped off. If at all the word ’Editing’ existed, then BMB has obliterated it from its reckoning. Several redundant recalls of faRUN, immoderate attachment between faRun and Rebecca, and a superfluous narrative turns the Sprint into a Marathon.
This is a simple story of a rustic child left orphaned by an atrocious attack during partition of India who went on to join the Indian Army and eventually shattering the world records in 400m sprint. Sadly, a screenplay fraught with myriad loose ends and redundant flashbacks made my moviewing a bitter experience.Barring a few key races, a handful excruciating moments of toil and hard labour and a spooky past about a dreadful personal tragedy, I could never relate any other part of the movie to Milkha Singh’s real life.
However, there truly are some scenes worth appreciating like the ’’HAVAN KUND’’ song depicting the rhapsodic choreography of a trainee batch and the moment when faRUN comes before Divya (playing his sister’s role) flaunting his hard-earned blazer of India.
Performance wise, its Divya Dutta with her powerful delivery in a scarce on screen presence and Pawan Malhotra as the typical Punjabi speaking coach of Milkha who stands out.
BMB should outrightly be dismissed as an overly hyped and a well marketed movie. I pity for movies like Paan Singh Tomar which was made at a meagre budget of Rs. 4 crore (compared to Rs. 30 crore of BMB) and had all the right ingredients for a biopic but couldn’t appeal to masses. Atlast, movies like BMB reassure the fact that we still have a lot more Indian sports person(P.T Usha, M.S Dhoni) whose stories are waiting to be told on Celluloid in a much more sober and sincere manner.
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