![]() ![]() Then, one day, I stopped meeting him, stopped reading everything related to the project. ![]() We met I listened to his life story several times over and then gently took him into areas he had locked away in his memories. It’s a take on the man behind the athlete. As a writer, my approach was not to mirror but interpret his life for a film. There were documentaries, books and statistics available on Milkhaji’s sporting life. Scripting BMB was humbling I wrote, rewrote several drafts. It took me over two years to write Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (BMB)’s story, screenplay, dialogues and songs. It requires every ounce of your ability and hard work. Though his struggle was of another level and magnitude, in a tiny way I identified with the challenges of coming from a non-privileged background (a small town) and the struggle to find a footing on your own merit. When I first met Milkhaji, something resonated.
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