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. During 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 returns to his home a national champion, & to marry Biro, only to find out that Biro was married off in his absence & the family has moved. Despite being injured he still participates in the race, overcoming his pain he wins the race thus breaking the national record. He gets selected for service commission where he gets miffed and 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). It just maybe worth it.The 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. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy bring Prasoon Joshi's lyrics to life with their music. The first half could have been tightened but perhaps the filmmaker's stubbornness becomes evident.Įven songs like Maston ka Jhund and the title track power the film but some songs could have been snipped. Milkha overcomes this fear in a race in Pakistan. But here amid the noise of that evening, he turns around and loses.īut life does not end at the loss. Then comes the drive, which he lives with and four years later, he reaches 1960 Rome Olympics after winning the Asiad and Commonwealth Games among many other championships, and all eyes are on him. He understands that the race is not as simple as it seems. This race comes to an important turn in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, where he is unable to survive in the first round of the 400m sprint. First for the greed of an extra glass of milk and escaping parade, then to wear the India blazer and subsequently to have the world at his feet for running. Here, he falls for Bira, who lives in a refugee colony in Shahdara and makes up his mind to win her, and is enlisted. He moves to Delhi after Partition with his sister. The flashback of the story shows a Sikh boy growing up in Multan. Prasoon Joshi's script keeps a close grip on the emotion of the story.įarhan Akhtar's acting could leave one rejoicing. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is the same director who gave us Rang de Basanti and comes across as the director who livens up every moment. His friend's son asks him if he is the same Milkha who runs.īhaag Milkha Bhaag is the story of that same 'Flying Sikh' Milkha Singh but is bogged by detail in the first half. The tragedy ends in Pakistan when his friend tells him that it's not people but circumstances that are bad. Later on in the film, Milkha slips yet again at an important moment when the massacre in Pakistan forces him to turn around. The kid screams and runs to the corpses but slips on the bloodied floor. Scene 2: Some time later, the kid returns to his gutted yet wet house to find the bodies of his parents and the rest of the family. The boy's father screams, run Milkha run. The boy is a Sikh in the newly-carved Islamic republic and his village is under attack by Pathans. Scene 1: The sun is setting, it's raining and a boy is running in what is pictured as Pakistan.
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