The couple was both receptive and courteous.
Nimmi Aunty would spoil me with home-cooked meals. We would speak over lunch until 4 pm, then meet again for an early dinner and talk some more. Every morning, at 11 am, Milkha would finish golfing at the Chandigarh Golf Club, wear his signature suit, red turban with a matching red tie and sit down with me at noon sharp. Photograph: Kind courtesy Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra/Instagram IMAGE: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra with his inspiration, the late Milkha Singh. He then went on to create a national record in athletics that remained unbroken for almost 40 years! He also won a double gold medal in the Asian Games, broke the Commonwealth Games record with a gold medal and then set a world record in 400 metres.Ī couple of days later, I took a flight to Chandigarh to meet one of India's greatest athletes and his wife Nirmal Kaur (Nimmy Aunty for me). What inspired me was how a 12 year old, who witnessed the massacre of his family, was pushed and shoved into India and lived with no roof to sleep under and no food in his stomach. He escaped and went on to cross the border and somehow reunited with his sister. Milkha had lost his childhood to Partition. He read it and, the very next day, came to office and started telling me the story in the book. Tandon's uncle, Babbu Mama, knew Gurmukhi. I immediately gave it to Rajiv Tandon ( who went to become one of the produers of Bhaag Milkha Bhaag) to figure out if he knew someone who could read it. I picked up the book only to realise that it was an autobiography written and self-published by Milkha Singh in Gurmukhi (Punjabi script). At the end of our meeting, he gave me the autobiography of Milkha Singh.Īditya went on to make Uri: The Surgical Strike, one of the biggest blockbusters of 2019, which Ronnie Screwvala produced. This was a comedy which he wanted to direct and my company to produce. One day, a young director, Aditya Dhar, visited me to narrate a script. IMAGE: Milkha Singh signs the Bhaag Milkha Bhaag poster.
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