His coach yells "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag!" ("Run, Milkha, run!"), and Singh is suddenly taken back to the memories of his childhood which haunt him, resulting in him dropping to fourth place. The film starts in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, in which Milkha Singh is competing in the 400-metre. Singh sold the film rights for one rupee and inserted a clause stating that a share of the profits would be given to the Milkha Singh Charitable Trust, which was founded in 2003 with the aim of assisting poor and needy sportspeople. Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is the sixth highest-grossing 2013 Bollywood film worldwide and became the 21st film to gross ₹1 billion (US$13 million).īhaag Milkha Bhaag was inspired by The Race of My Life, an autobiography co-written by Singh and his daughter, Sonia Sanwalka. It performed very well at the box office, eventually being declared a "super hit" domestically as well as a hit overseas. Made on a budget of ₹410 million (US$5.4 million), the film released on 12 July 2013 and garnered acclaim from critics and audiences alike. Sports was coordinated by the American action director Rob Miller of ReelSports. It stars Farhan Akhtar in the titular role, with Sonam Kapoor, Divya Dutta, Meesha Shafi, Pavan Malhotra, Yograj Singh, Art Malik, and Prakash Raj instead of supporting roles. The story is based on the life of Milkha Singh, an Indian athlete and Olympian who was a champion of the Commonwealth Games and two-times 400m champion of the Asian Games. Run, Milkha, run) is a 2013 Hindi-language biographical sports drama film directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra from a script written by Prasoon Joshi. To match his height for the character Emraan Hashmi had to wear a four-inch sole inside his shoes.Bhaag Milkha Bhaag ( transl. Mohammad Azharuddin himself trained Emraan Hashmi for the role.ġ6.Emraan Hashmi is 5'8 and Mohammad Azharuddin is almost 6'1. But due to health issues, he couldn't do the film and was replaced by Amaal Malik.ġ5. Pritam was the first choice of music director. The movie is based on real-life incidents, based on Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin.ġ4. Azhar begins with a five-point disclaimer saying the film is based on a few true events from Azharuddin's life but most of the story is fictional.ġ3. This will be the second time Emraan Hashmi and Prachi Desai working togetherġ2. Ekta Kapoor earlier had Saif Ali Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, and Ranveer Singh in mind to play the lead role.ġ1.
Ravi Shastri was upset with the makers for showing his character in the bad limelight.ġ0. In a conversation recorded by the news magazine Tehelka, Maria claims that Azhar had "a criminal bent of mind"Ĩ. Azharuddin's involvement in match-fixing was also accepted by Rakesh Maria, the former head of the Crime Branch and Commissioner of Mumbai Police. M A Ganapathy the former Superintendent of Police in CBI who was the chief investigating officer in the match-fixing case has refuted the movie's clean chit to Azharuddin claiming that his confession is on tape with the CBI. The film has generated controversy before its release over a storyline that absolves the protagonist Mohammad Azharuddin from charges of fixing matches in return for money. Pakistani actress Urwa Hocane was earlier offered the lead female role of Sangeeta Bijlani, however, she refused to say that she didn't want to do bold scenes.ħ.
For example, Sourav (Ganguly), Kapil (Dev), Manoj (Prabhakar), Navjot (Singh Sidhu), Sachin (Tendulkar), Ravi (Shastri), and the actress Sangeeta Bijlani.Ħ. In this film, all characters that were playing cricketers and the Bollywood actress were addressed by their first name and not their full name as it was based on the real cricketers and the actress. The scene in which Pakistani batsman sleds Azhar during the Indo Pak test match is Venkatesh Prasad and Aamir Sohail's fight which took place in the quarter-final of the 1996 world cup in Bangalore.ĥ. Tony D' Souza considers Akshay Kumar as his mentor and hence he was given special thanks in the beginning.Ĥ. This is because Azhar is the third film of director Tony D'Souza, his first two films being Blue and Boss, both featuring Akshay Kumar in lead roles. At the starting of the movie we see that Akshay Kumar has been given special thanks. The song Oye Oye is a compilation of Sangeeta Bhijlani's hit songs from Tridev as the character is based on her.ģ. This is Emraan Hashmi's third movie concerned with cricket.Ģ.
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