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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Year:

2013

Duration:

186 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama | History | Sport

IMDB rate:

8.4

Director:

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Awards:

50 wins & 36 nominations

Details

Country: India

Release Date: 2013-07-12

Filming Locations: Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $647,112 (USA) (14 July 2013)

Gross: $1,626,289 (USA) (11 August 2013)

Cast

Actor

Character

Rebecca Breeds

Meesha Shafi

Farhan Akhtar

Milkha Singh

Sonam Kapoor

Biro

Pavan Malhotra

Milkha Singh's Coach

Art Malik

Sampuran Singh /

Japtej Singh

Milkha Singh (Childhood)

Yograj Singh

Indian Coach / Ranveer Singh

Jass Bhatia

Mahinder

Divjot Singh Chandhok

Colonel

Divya Dutta

Isri Kaur /

Chandan Gill

Sampreet Singh

Dev Gill

Abdul Khaliq

Sumit Gulati

Suresh kumar

Hikaru Ito

Emperor of Japan

Shanta Kumar

Gen. Ayub Khan

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Pilot / Himself

Md. Sahidur Rahaman

Rana (as Md. Shahidur Rahaman)

K.K. Raina

Mr. Wadhwa

Prakash Raj

Army Officer

Yash Saxena

Nawab Shah

Javed Sheikh / Pakistan National Team Coach

Shriswara

Nimmi

Dalip Tahil

Jawahar Lal Nehru

Herry Tangri

Taran Singh

Richard White

Coach Peter Hamilton

Préity Üupala

Journalist (2013)

Ranjit Batra

Politician at Prime Minister's farewell Tea Party (uncredited)

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Trivia

There have been claims that Singh won 77 of his 80 races, but these are spurious. The number of races in which he participated is not verified, nor is the number of victories.

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Prakash Raj worked on this film for free.

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Paan Singh Tomar, one of Milkha Singh's contemporaries in the Indian Army and as an athlete, did become infamous as a dacoit. Both have won gold medals in 1958 Asian Games in athletics.

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Goofs

When the Indian team's coach writes the world record on the tissue paper, he writes the numbers 45.9 in double quotes(" "). When Milkha burns the paper, there are no quotes.

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The movie implies that Milkha breaks the 400m World record in 1960 with his time of 45.8s. Although 45.9s was the 400m World record in 1948, Lou Jones set a new world record of 45.4s in 1955. Lou Jones then broke his own record and set a new record of 45.2s in 1956. Beating 45.9s was Milkha's personal goal, and he accomplished it many times, but he never set a World or Olympic record.

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Post Rome Olympics as Indian contingent bus crosses international border to visit Pakistan for friendly races, an advertisement is shown for recruitment by Border Security Force (BSF). The race took place in 1960 but BSF was established in 1965.

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