He trains hard with a firm determination and wins in several places.
On the flight back to India he asks his coach what the world record is for the 400m race and learns that it is 45.90 seconds. Suffering from guilt he even slaps himself in front of a mirror.
The following day he feels exhausted from the previous night’s activities and loses the final race. In spite of being injured he still participates in the race, overcoming his pain he wins the race thus breaking the national record.ĭuring the Melbourne 1956 Olympics he gets attracted to the granddaughter of his Australian technical coach, and after a frolicking night in a bar he has a one-night stand with her. He gets selected for service commission where he gets miffed and also gets beaten up by senior players whom he had defeated earlier, on the day before selection of Indian team for Olympics. Milkha finally finds himself in the army where he gets noticed by a Havaldar (Sergeant) after he wins a race in which top 10 runners will get milk, two eggs and excused from exercise. He falls in love with Biro (Sonam Kapoor) but she asks him to live a life of honesty. Living in impoverished refugee camps, Milkha soon makes friends and survives by stealing with his friends. He reaches Delhi and later meets his sister there. Partition of India in 1947 caused chaos which resulted in mass religious violence in Punjab in British India, killing the parents of Milkha Singh (Farhan Akhtar). PlotThe film starts in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where a coach says “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag!”, and the story is taken back to the memories of the childhood days of a young boy which haunted him, resulted in him dropping to fourth. In the process, it became the 21st film to enter the coveted Bollywood 100 Crore Club. Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is currently the third highest grossing Bollywood film of 2013 in India.
Released in mid-2013, the film gathered a highly positive response from critics, and performed exceptionally well at the box office, eventually being declared a super hit domestically and hit overseas. The film stars Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor, Divya Dutta, Pavan Malhotra, Meesha Shafi and Yograj Singh. The film has been produced and directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra on a script written by Prasoon Joshi, with sports action by Rob Miller of ReelSports. (English: Run Milkha Run) is a 2013 Indian biographical sports drama film based on the life of “The Flying Sikh” Milkha Singh, an Indian athlete who was a national champion runner and an Olympian.