However, the Pakistani coach and his athlete shun him down by disrespecting him. After Abdul wins his race, Milkha Singh approaches him to congratulate the victor. He then sees Abdul Khaliq, dubbed the "Fastest Man of Asia". He subsequently enters the 1958 Asian Games with the hope of winning Gold for India. A montage of tyre training in the cold desert of the Himalayas is depicted, wherein Milkha Singh pushes himself to the brink of absolute exhaustion. On the flight back to India, he asks his coach what the world record is for the 400m race and learns that it is 45.9 seconds. He realises his mistake and, suffering from guilt, he even slaps himself in front of a mirror.
The following day, he feels exhausted from the night's activities and loses the final race. After a frolicking night in a bar, they have a one-night stand. However, his friend informs him that Biro was married and left Delhi.ĭuring the Melbourne 1956 Olympics, Singh is attracted to Stella, the granddaughter of his Australian technical coach. Proud of his achievement, Milkha goes back to Delhi to ask Biro's hand in marriage. Despite being injured, he participates in the race and overcomes his pain: he wins the race and breaks the national record. On the day before selection of the Indian team for the Olympics, Singh is beaten up by senior players whom he had defeated earlier. He gets selected for service commission, where he is miffed. There, he wins a race in which the top 10 runners are rewarded milk, two eggs, and are excused from fatigue duty his running skills are noticed by a havaldar (sergeant). Now grown up, he falls in love with Biro, who asks him to live a life of honesty. Living in impoverished refugee camps, Milkha makes friends and survives by stealing with them. The flashback shows Singh reaching Delhi alone, where he later meets his sister. His memories are of the chaos surrounding the 1947 Partition of India, which resulted in mass religious violence in Punjab and the killing of Singh's parents. A coach yells "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag!" ('Run, Milkha, run!'), and Singh is suddenly taken back to the memories of his childhood which haunt him, resulting in him dropping to fourth place.
The film starts in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, in which Milkha Singh is competing in the 400-metre. Singh sold the film rights for one rupee and inserted a clause stating that a share of the profits would be given to the Milkha Singh Charitable Trust, which was founded in 2003 with the aim of assisting poor and needy sportspeople. Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is the sixth highest-grossing 2013 Bollywood film worldwide and became the 21st film to gross ₹1 billion (US$13 million).īhaag Milkha Bhaag was inspired by The Race of My Life, an autobiography co-written by Singh and his daughter, Sonia Sanwalka. It performed very well at the box office, eventually being declared a "super hit" domestically as well as a hit overseas. Made on a budget of ₹410 million (US$5.4 million), the film released on 12 July 2013 and garnered acclaim from critics and audiences alike. Sports was coordinated by the American action director Rob Miller of ReelSports. It stars Farhan Akhtar in the titular role, with Sonam Kapoor, Divya Dutta, Meesha Shafi, Pavan Malhotra, Yograj Singh, Art Malik, and Prakash Raj instead of supporting roles.
The story is based on the life of Milkha Singh, an Indian athlete and Olympian who was a champion of the Commonwealth Games and two-times 400m champion of the Asian Games. Run, Milkha, run) is a 2013 Hindi-language biographical sports drama film directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra from a script written by Prasoon Joshi.
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