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Milkha Singh - An Autobiography - The Race of My Life (English, Hardcover, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Milkha Singh, Sonia Sanwalka, Jeev Milkha Singh)
Milkha Singh: The Race of My Life – An Autobiography is about the life of Milkha Singh and his triumphs as of one of India’s distinguished achievers in sports.
Summary of the Book
The Race of My Life is the stirring and inspiring story of Milkha Singh. As a little boy, Milkha survived the loss of most of his family during partition. He became antisocial and ran and ran as a young boy, to escape from the cops! What destiny offered him later was an opportunity to become an ambitious Army recruit. He ran his first race while in the army, to get the distinct extravagance of having a glass of milk every day. In this autobiography, he talks about his magnificent success at the Commonwealth Games, about winning the first ever gold for India in athletics. He is hailed as the 'Flying Sikh'. But the Olympics had a distressing failure in store for him. His personal life also went through difficult times, in terms
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Milkha Singh
Indian athlete (1929–2021)
For the Indian Test cricketer, see A. G. Milkha Singh.
Milkha Singh (20 November 1929 – 18 June 2021),[a][2] also known as "The Flying Sikh", was an Indian track and field sprinter who was introduced to the sport while serving in the Indian Army. He is the only athlete to win gold at 400 metres at the Asian Games as well as the Commonwealth Games. He has won gold medals in the 1958 and 1962 Asian Games. He represented India in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Singh was awarded the Padma Shri in 1959, India's fourth-highest civilian honour, in recognition of his sporting achievements.
The race for which Singh was best remembered is his fourth-place finish in the 400 metres final at the 1960 Olympic Games, which he had entered as one of the favourites. He led the race till the 200m mark before easing off, allowing others to pass him. Various records were broken in the race, which required a photo-finish and saw American Otis Davis being
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
2013 Bollywood sports film
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag[4][a] (transl. Run, Milkha, Run) is a 2013 Indian Hindi-languagebiographicalsportsdrama film directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, written by lyricist Prasoon Joshi, and produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures in association with Rajiv Tandon and editor P.S. Bharathi under the ROMP Pictures banner. Based on the life of Milkha Singh, an Indian athlete and Olympian who was a champion of the Commonwealth Games and two-time 400m champion of the Asian Games, it stars Farhan Akhtar in the title role alongside Divya Dutta, Meesha Shafi, Pavan Malhotra, Yograj Singh, Art Malik, and Prakash Raj in supporting roles with Sonam Kapoor in a special appearance.
Made on a budget of ₹410 million (US$4.7 million),[2] the film was released on 12 July 2013 and garnered acclaim from critics and audiences alike. It performed very well at the box office, eventually being declared a "super hit" domestically as well as a hit overseas.[6][7][8]Bhaag Milkha Bhaa
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