Run Milkha Run

The untimely demise of filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s mother on Saturday evening could have brought to a halt the shooting schedule of Mehra’s Run Milkha Run in Ladakh. Precious time that would have been hard to retrieve, were it not for Mehra’s leading man Farhan Akhtar who promised to keep the shooting going on uninterrupted in Mehra’s absence.

It’s a father-son reunion story warm enough to be translated into a tender screenplay. It was indeed a historical moment when star-cricketer Yuvraj Singh made it a point to be present for his father Yograj Singh’s shooting of Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s <em>Run Milkha Run</em>. Yograj Singh, a Punjabi-Hindi actor of nearly three decades’ experience before the camera (he was first seen in JP Dutta’s <em>Batwara</em> in 1983) plays Milkha Singh’s coach in Mehra’s film. Yuvraj suddenly showed up to show solidarity with his father when Yograj began to shoot for the film.