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In The Long Run

     The ribbon tied at the finish line is brought down by the touch of his nose in slow motion, and the entire crowd seated in the cinema hall bursts into hoots, whistles and generous claps of applause. We all know it’s a culmination of the director’s vision and the use of sophisticated technology, but the climax of the masterpiece ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ leaves us as astonished and awestruck as the audience in the movie. ‘The Flying Sikh’ as he was rightly called by the then General Ayub Khan of Pakistan, Milkha Singh races his way to a position of reverence even in the minds of those whose parents weren’t even born when he achieved his laudable victories.      I am not writing this piece as a spoiler for the movie or as a eulogy in honour of the living legend Milkha Singh, but as a realisation that I’m sure this movie is bound to create in a million minds around the world. Calling it ‘just about the best movie ever made’ is an understatement. From the director who gave us ‘Ran