Budhia Singh: Born To Run

Movie name	:	Budhia Singh: Born To Run
Genres	:	Biography
Run time	:	125 minutes
Produced by	:	Viacom18 Motion Pictures Code Red Films
Directed by	:	Soumendra Padhi
Music by	:	Sidhant Mathur ,Ishaan Chhabra
Writers	:	Soumendra Padhi
Cinematography	:	Manoj Kumar Khatoi
Edited by	:	Shivkumar V. Panicker
Countries	:	India

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Riddled with extreme poverty, a four-year-old Budhia was sold to a peddler by his mother for Rs 800. Biranchi, a local judo coach, takes the spunky boy under his wing. The child's running abilities makes Biranchi hopeful that he could be India's greatest Marathon runner. (Budhia ran from Bhubaneswar to Puri at the age of four covering 65 kilometres in 7 hours). However, the coach faced backlash on ethical grounds for imposing vigorous training practices on the child. The government inquiry, public scrutiny and media circus that followed, clipped the boy's wings and banned him from running long-distances.

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