Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
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| Hindi | भाग मिल्खा भाग |
| Directed by | Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra |
| Produced by | Rajiv Tandon Raghav Bahl Maitreyee Dasgupta Madhav Roy Kapur Rachvin Narula Shyam P.S Navmeet Singh P. S. Bharathi |
| Written by | Prasoon Joshi |
| Based on | The Race of My Life by Milkha Singh and Sonia Sanwalka |
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Farhan Akhtar Hikaru Ito Meesha Shafi Pawan Malhotra |
| Music by | Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy |
| Cinematography | Binod Pradhan |
| Edited by | P. S. Bharathi |
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ROMP Pictures
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| Distributed by | Viacom 18 Motion Pictures |
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Running time
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189 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹30 crore |
| Box office | ₹164 crore |
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (English: "Run Milkha Run") is a 2013 Indian biographical sports drama film directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra from a script written by Prasoon Joshi. The story is based on the life of Milkha Singh, an Indian athlete who was a national champion runner and an Olympian. It stars Farhan Akhtar in the lead role with Pavan Malhotra and Art Malik in supporting roles and Sonam Kapoor in a cameo. Sports was coordinated by the American action director Rob Miller of ReelSports.
Made on a budget of ₹300 million (US$4.5 million), the film released on 12 July 2013 and gathered a positive response from critics and audiences alike. It performed very well at the box office, eventually being declared a "super hit" domestically and hit overseas.Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is the sixth highest grossing 2013 Bollywood film worldwide and became the 21st film to gross ₹1 billion (US$15 million).
Singh and his daughter, Sonia Sanwalka, co-wrote his autobiography, titled The Race of My Life. The book inspired Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. 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. The Trust was founded in 2003 with the aim of assisting poor and needy sportspeople.
The film starts in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where a coach says "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag!" The runner is taken back to the memories of his childhood days which haunt him, resulting in him dropping to fourth. 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). He reaches Delhi and later meets his sister there. Living in impoverished refugee camps, Milkha makes friends and survives by stealing with them. He falls in love with Biro (Sonam Kapoor), but she asks him to live a life of honesty.
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