MUMBAI: For the first time in the annals of Indian film history, director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra has decided to break away from the concept of an interval, "the artificial divide", as he calls it, in his forthcoming film Run Milkha Run and also all his future films.

" There needs to be a shift in the manner in which we format our films. Films in the West don‘t have intervals forced on them. Why should we not ape them in this respect when we ape them in everything else? It‘s high time we do away with the pre interval and the post interval halves," Mehra quips.

It may noted that some of the Bollywood films like Raj Kapoor’s Sangam and Mera Naam Joker had as many as two intervals.

Run Milkha Run is largely patterned along the life and times of India‘s ace sprinter Milkha Singh. The film would have either Akshay Kumar or Abhishek Bachchan as the probable leads.