STORY: The National award winning film is based on the controversial true story of Odisha’s wonder boy Budhia Singh( played by Mayur Mahendra Patole) and his mentor Biranchi Das( Manoj Bajpayee), who faces opposition from various quarters for seeing an Olympic dream for the world’s youngest marathon runner.
REVIEW: 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.