Now the truth can be told. Remember Farhan Akhtar’s career-defining title role in the sports biopic Bhaag Milkha Bhaag of 2013? A video that went viral over the weekend has it that Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra first offered that role to Akshay Kumar. But the actor was already busy working on three other big ticket entertainers that year including Special 26, Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai Dobaara! and Boss and could not take up Bollywood’s tribute to the legendary “Flying Sikh” who represented India at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games and won gold medals at the Asian Games in 1958 and 1962 and Commonwealth Games in 1958. Interestingly, the revelation comes in a throwback video clip that has Vicky Kaushal asking Akshay to name a film he is guilty of not watching or doing. And Akshay, who has led from the front in Bollywood sporting dramas like Patiala House on cricket (2011), Brothers on Mixed Martial Arts (2015) and Gold on hockey (2018), candidly admitted he had been offered Bhaag Milkha Bhaag but opted out instead for Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobaara! “I haven’t watched it and I regret not doing it,” Akshay reportedly told Vicky.