![]() He then breaks the previous world record for the 400m race with a time of 45.80 seconds. He trains hard 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 night's activities and loses the final race. After a frolicking night in a bar, they have a one-night stand. During the Melbourne 1956 Olympics he is attracted to the granddaughter of his Australian technical coach. ![]() Overcoming his pain, he wins the race thus breaking the national record. In spite of being injured, he participates in the race. ![]() He gets selected for service commission where he is miffed and gets beaten up by senior players whom he had defeated earlier, on the day before selection of Indian team for Olympics. Milkha finds himself in the army where he gets noticed by a havaldar (sergeant) after he wins a race in which the 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 makes friends and survives by stealing with them. 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). 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.
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