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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is a indian film of genre Drama directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra released in USA on 12 july 2013 with Farhan Akhtar
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013)
भाग मिल्खा भाग
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Add to a movie listBhaag 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 based on the life of Milkha Singh, an Indian athlete who was a national champion runner and an Olympian. The film stars Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor, Meesha Shafi, Divya Dutta, Pavan Malhotra, Yograj Singh and Prakash Raj. 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 twenty-first 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 but 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.
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The film starts in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where a coach says "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag!" The story is taken back to the memories of the childhood days of a young boy which haunted 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 soon makes friends and survives by stealing along with his friends. He falls in love with Biro (Sonam Kapoor), but she asks him to live a life of honesty.Actors
Farhan Akhtar
(Milkha Singh)
Sonam Kapoor
(Biro)
Rebecca Breeds
(Stella)
Dalip Tahil
(Jawaharlal Nehru)
Meesha Shafi
(Perizaad)
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