Two wheels- Movies

Here are two movies for sportslovers that shouldn't be given a miss. The first one's about a motorbike the 2nd about a cycle(bike). It's also about human beings struggling against all odds-monetary,health and aspiring to set a mark and break the world record times. Both based on real life stories and inspirational heroes.


"The worlds fastest indian" is based on a real life inspirational story line and has a wonderful performance by Anthony Hopkins as Burt Munro.

It's about Munro's fearless devotion to his lifelong love: speed racing, specifically on his re-conditioned 1920s-era Indian motorcycle.Though plagued by a heart ailment, Munro soldiers on, modifying his ancient Indian motorcycle using nothing more than junkyard parts and with almost no money , makes his way half around the world to race at the Salt Flats of Bonneville in Utah.



Today I watched another wonderful film and this time it was about cycling and it wasn't about Lance Amstrong but Obree, "The Flying Scotsman" . Jonny Lee Miller did great justice to his role as Obree.

Obree took the cycling world by storm in 1993 when the unemployed amateur convincingly broke the world one-hour record, pumping to victory on a bike of his own design. And unlike the well-financed professionals on the international cycling scene, Obree's bicycle was made by him and not an expensive cycling designer, crafted from bits of scrap metal and even the innards of his wife's washing machine!

While the cycling aspects of the story are fun , the truly important thrust of the film comes from revealing the internal mental turmoil that Obree had faced since childhood.