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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