Bhaag Milkha Bhaag Page #3

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"With your feet"

"Why let these dreams

stop your feet"

"Untangle the threads,

free you stride"

"Who keeps accounts of yesterday"

"Who knows about tomorrow"

"lrrigate the moment"

"Place the burning

flame on your tongue"

"Then even your

burnt lips shall sing"

"Your wounds shall hum"

"And your pain shall

become a melody"

"lf you are alive"

"Take it full on"

"Crush it into powder"

"With your feet"

Stop.

Come here.

At ease. Name?

Recruit Milkha Singh.

Out this late?

Training for the selection, sir!

Nights are for sleeping.

Train in the day.

No time in the day, sir!

l'll see about that.

Yes, sir.

Go and sleep.

Hail lndia, sir.

Left-right-left.

Squad. Attention!

Turn left.

Recruit Milkha Singh.

- Yes, sir.

What do you do at night?

- Sleep, sir!

Sleep? Or run?

Run. Then sleep, sir!

You complained you've no

time in the day, eh?

l don't, sir! l do, sir!

You do? Or don't?

l do and don't, sir!

You'll run in the day from now.

You're excused from fatigue duty.

Just run. Get it?

Yes sir!

What do you understand?

- Run in the day, sir!

And at night?

- Sleep, sir!

Now go! Do your running!

Yes, sir.

Go on!

Hail lndia!

Don't stop. Don't think.

Keep running, else you'll get

a kick on your ass.

Run!

Come on!

What water does he drink?

That's sweat. Not water.

Sweat?

Milkha's sweat.

So much?

He fills a mug a day.

l thought he was mad, but l see

he's totally crazy now.

Milkha!

You please go ahead.

"l am loved by all"

"A soldier of the country"

"Sing with me, Hail lndia!"

"l will grow up to

be the nation's pride"

"A shining star

in the world's eyes"

"l will forge ahead"

"Left right, left right, halt!"

Take your buckets!

Here.

Listen.

Yes.

- l'll carry them for you.

Please.

They're heavy. Please let me.

Leave it.

No, it's fine.

Give it.

- No.

Give it, it's heavy.

What's going on here?

ls he teasing you?

No.

"My lover resembles God"

"My beloved resembles God"

"My lover resembles God"

"My beloved resembles God"

"Should l love him or worship him"

"lsn't it one and the same?"

"Allah is the foremost"

This is close to my house.

Can't see anything.

"Allah is the foremost"

l told you l would help.

Helping your sister

or helping yourself?

So?

Pick up the buckets!

l was working.

l know what's going on!

"Why should l visit the temple?"

"When love is my God"

"Why should l visit a mosque?"

"When love is my God"

Hey!

l'm in love with you.

What?

Water...

"Should l love him or worship him"

... for you.

"Should l love him or worship him"

"lsn't it one and the same?"

"Allah is the foremost"

What's your name?

Sorry?

Odd name, "sorry"

Biro...

Your home...

My name is Milkha Singh.

"My lover resembles God"

"My beloved resembles God"

So Romeo is alone today?

Did someone else take the buckets?

"Allah is the foremost"

"You, a cascading

waterfall of divine light"

"l, an age old thirst"

"With my eyes l gulped"

"Those bountiful waters"

"l spend my life

just gazing at you"

"l immediately take off thoughts

of any other that tries to wrap me"

"Should l love him or worship him"

"lsn't it one and the same?"

"Allah is the foremost"

l love you. Do you?

l love you too.

"My feet dance the bhangra"

"While my breath taps the beat"

"l sing songs of

love wherever l go"

"Should l love him or worship him"

What are you doing right now?

"Allah is the foremost"

Nothing much.

"Allah is the foremost"

Do you remember me.

Who is this idiot?

Don't throw it so hard.

Father's ears turned red.

Didn't he go to work?

- lt's a holiday.

Holiday.

Gandhiji's birth anniversary.

What is Gandhiji's holiday?

Gandhiji got us freedom

from the British.

So it's a national

holiday on his birthday.

National holiday?

We have national

holidays for important people.

One day there'll be a

holiday in Milkha's name.

ln your name?

l do important things, too.

Where are you going?

Get off!

Stand straight!

Whose is it?

lt's mine.

Not the cycle.

l'm talking about the butter tins.

Did you steal them?

What are you saying? No!

l worked hard for them.

Do you have a bill?

A bill for what? They're mine.

This is the Shahdara

police station.

Without a receipt you

can't take them past here.

Collect them when

you have the bill.

They go with me.

Do l have 'dumb ass'

printed on my forehead?

Sorry sir, l can't read.

lt's good stuff.

Ok. Leave one and take one.

No, l will take them both.

You sure?

Oh yes...very sure.

What do you think you are doing?

What are you doing?

You will fall sick.

Move back.

Have you lost it?

- Move back.

Move back.

Move.

Move back.

...9, 10, 1 1, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16..

..17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22..

..23, 24, 25, 26..

..27, 28, 29, 30..

..31, 32, 33, 34..

Shut up..

- ..35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40..

..41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46..

..47, 48, 49, 50.

Shut up!

What are you doing, Milkha?

51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56..

..57..

..91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96..

Have you lost it?

- ..97, 98, 99, 100!

Why one?

You can have them both now!

There is something about that boy.

These are the heroes of today...

... those who rob and steal...

... thieves and goons.

Biro!

l want to marry you.

Don't be shy.

We'll have dozens of Kids.

Mahinder, Parminder, Jaswinder

Dharmender, Rajinder.

- To be thieves like you?

l'll give up all that.

You trust me, don't you?

l'll make something of my

life and come back for you.

Will you wait for me?

Yes.

Love can conquer anything.

He didn't ask for much.

Just a small business...

to help live an honest life.

But to earn money,

you need money don't you?

A thousand? Too much...

Do something!

We will need a year.

l don't have a year!

One big last job then.

No, no more stealing...

l don't want to be a thief.

Ticket please...

Ticket.

Milkha, you've got them?

No.

Look again.

Hurry up!

There are other passengers too.

Stop.

Milkha, run!

Run!

Run! Milkha Run!

Why did you come here?

- Let's go.

Where are your gold earrings?

You sold them to post my bail,

didn't you?

l've always taken from you.

Don't talk nonsense!

Let's go home.

He struggled hard...

... knocked at many a doors.

Ultimately,

the Army gave him respectability.

Maybe fate was now on his side.

You moron! Loosen up. Grip hard!

Fool! Lift your legs.

These shoes are full of nails.

l can't run in them.

Give it a try.

No sir... l can't...

Gurudev Singh..

Ranvir Singh.

How are you?

ls this the "stone boy?"

- Yes.

Milkha, Ranvir Singh,

the lndian team coach.

Your blessings, sir.

God bless you.

How are you?

Fighting with these nails sir.

Now you are, but soon these spikes

will be your best friends.

Sir, can't we run

barefoot in the Olympics?

Don't be..

Come with me.

Run and show me.

Come back.

Easy... easy...

Why are you hiding their names?

Who were they?

Tell me their names

once and l will...

Looks like we'll need to admit him

in the hospital tomorrow.

All his efforts gone to waste.

Male no.1 Makhan Singh.

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