It performed very well at the box office, eventually being declared a "super hit" domestically as well as a hit overseas. Made on a budget of ₹410 million (US$5.4 million), the film released on 12 July 2013 and garnered acclaim from critics and audiences alike. Sports was coordinated by the American action director Rob Miller of ReelSports. It stars Farhan Akhtar in the titular role, with Sonam Kapoor, Divya Dutta, Meesha Shafi, Pavan Malhotra, Yograj Singh, Art Malik, and Prakash Raj in supporting roles. The story is based on the life of Milkha Singh, an Indian athlete and Olympian who was a champion of the Commonwealth Games and two-times 400m champion of the Asian Games. Run, Milkha, run) is a 2013 Hindi-language biographical sports drama film directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra from a script written by Prasoon Joshi. Ayub Khan then gives him the title "The Flying Sikh".Bhaag Milkha Bhaag ( transl. In the games, the Pakistani favorite is winning, when Milkha puts on speed, overtaking opponents one by one, takes a convincing lead and wins the race and respect of both the nations' peoples. In Pakistan he misses the press conference and goes to his village where in a flashback it is shown how his parents were murdered and the last words of his father were "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag!" He starts crying and is confronted by a boy who turns out to be his childhood friend's son. Then Jawaharlal Nehru convinces him to lead the Indian team to Pakistan for friendly races. He trains hard with a firm determination and wins in several places. He loses the race, beats himself up and on the way back to India asks his coach to tell him what the world record for the 400m race is. In the Melbourne Olympics he gets attracted to the granddaughter of his Australian technical coach, and after a night in a bar he sleeps with her. His coach tells him that he has broken the national record. In spite of being injured he still participates in the race, overcomes his pain and wins the race.
He gets selected for service commission where he gets miffed and also gets beaten up by senior players who are already members of the Indian running team. Milkha finally finds himself in the army where he gets noticed by a Havaldar (Pawan Malhotra) after he wins a race in which top 10 runners will get milk, two eggs and excuse from exercise. She promises to wait for him to return from a training camp, but when Milkha returns, he discovers that her father got her married to someone else. He falls in love with Biro (Sonam Kapoor) but she asks him to live a life of honesty. Milkha soon makes friends and survives by stealing with his friends. He reaches Delhi and later meets his sister there. The partition caused chaos which resulted in war with the locals of Punjab in Pakistan, killing the parents of Milkha Singh. We see how his happy childhood days come to an abrupt end when the land on which he and his family lived becomes a part of the new Pakistan. In a flashback, then, the story goes back to his childhood. The backward glance costs him the bronze.