Can a movie change a life? After watching Budhia Singh: Born To Run, you wish for a miracle. Or anything that can help a young prodigy unlock his enormous potential.
At the age of four, Budhia ran the 65 km between Bhubaneshwar to Puri in a little over seven hours, and was featured in the Limca Book of World Records as the ‘youngest marathon runner in the world’. His feat, amazing for someone so young and frail, was lapped up by the media, and he began being hailed as Odisha’s pride. Overnight, he became a star; so did his controversial coach Biranchi Das, who rescued him, some said, from one kind of exploitation only to exploit him for his ( Biranchi’s) own glory.
