With singer Divya Kumar crooning in the track, it can be easily tagged as a boys' number. Maston ka jhund has already become the favourite of many youngsters.The lyrics prove to be a rare phenomenon with poetry being given a lot of space and the track is one of the high points of the album. Unlike usual romantic numbers, this one stands apart with Sufi music blended into the melody seamlessly. Javed Bashir has sung the next track Mera Yaar beautifully.From hard rock music in the background, the song gradually takes a turn towards a soft, smooth melody. The guitar riffs at the song's beginning are impressive, while the background music along with tough lyrics make the song very encouraging. Zinda, sung by multiple singers namely Suhas Sawant, Raman Mahadevan, Mani Mahadevan and Siddharth Mahadevan, has an inspiring passion and intensity.The album starts with a Gurbani, soulfully rendered by Daler Mehndi to create a mood of peace.While a lot of the songs are inclined towards fun and passion, the romantic tracks also manage to steal a bit of limelight in the album. The music of Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Bhaag Milkha Bhaag has eight tracks, including a Gurbani rendition.Jawaharlal Nehru declares a day in the name of Milkha as national holiday as desired by Milkha himself. The president of Pakistan, General Ayub Khan, impressed by his effort gives him the title 'The Flying Sikh'. In the games, initially the Pakistani favorite is winning, but Milkha takes the lead overtaking opponents one by one, taking a convincing lead, and winning the race and respect of the two nations. 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 comforted by a boy who turns out to be his childhood friend's son. Jawaharlal Nehru (Dalip Tahil), the prime minister, convinces him to lead the Indian team in Pakistan for a friendly race with Abdul Khaliq (Dev Gill), also known as the fastest man of Asia. He then breaks the previous world record for the 400m race with a time of 45.80 seconds. He trains hard and wins in several places. On the flight back to India he asks his coach what the world record is for the 400m race and learns that it is 45.90 seconds. Suffering from guilt, he even slaps himself in front of a mirror. The following day he feels exhausted from the night's activities and loses the final race. After a frolicking night in a bar, they have a one-night stand. During the Melbourne 1956 Olympics he is attracted to the granddaughter of his Australian technical coach. Overcoming his pain, he wins the race thus breaking the national record. In spite of being injured, he participates in the race. He gets selected for service commission where he is miffed and gets beaten up by senior players whom he had defeated earlier, on the day before selection of Indian team for Olympics. 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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