Produced by: Viacom 18, Rakeysh Omprakash & Mehra
Written by: Prasoon Joshi
Starring: Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor, Dev Gill & Meesha Shafi
Music by: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Cinematography: -
Editing by: -
Studio: Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Distributed by: Reliance Entertainment
Release Date: 12 July 2013
Genre: Biopic + Drama
Running time: 189 minutes
Language: Hindi
Synopsis:
The film starts in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, where a coach says "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag!", and the story is taken back to memories of the childhood days of a young boy which haunted him, resulted in him dropping to fourth. The partition caused chaos which resulted in war with the locals of Punjab in Pakistan, killing the parents of Milkha Singh (Farhan Akhtar). He reaches Delhi and later meets his sister there. Milkha soon makes friends and survives by stealing with his friends. He falls in love with Biro (Sonam Kapoor) but she asks him to live a life of honesty. 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 excuse from exercise. 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. In spite of being injured he still participates in the race, overcomes his pain and wins the race. His coach tells him that he has broken the national record.
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