Aug 05, 2016 01:49 PM
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(Updated Aug 05, 2016 01:57 PM)
Did you catch the trailer of this movie? If you didn't than don’t watch it. Because this movie is definitely one to be witnessed on big screen, multiplex, talks, whatever is your deal. The story of a child prodigy and his coach, who made the country bury their heads in newspapers in 2005, has finally come on as motion pictures. Director Soumendra Padhi has well mixed his script with the emotions that ran a decade ago.
The story revolves around Budhia(played by Mayur Patole), a 5-year-old kid from Odisha, who is sold by his mother for mere Rs. 800 to a drunk and abusive bangle seller. A judo coach-cum-political activist Biranchi Das(Manoy Bajpayee) discovers Budhia’s gift of running and stamina to run endlessly for long hours. Das gets so obsessed in training Budhia that he starts ignoring his own family and other children in the training centre. In short time, Budhia achieves name and fame as India’s youngest marathoner. But this brings his Coach Das into the not-so-right limelight. He is accused of exploiting a young child into running, for long kilometers even without water. But he knows the local political intricacies and knows how to master at turning it around.
The story is structured around Das, and Bajpayee has shown him to be energetic, feisty and ready to take on world. He is well aware what his single wrong word can do and has been walking on tight rope, a slip and he becomes the villain of the story. Still the whole country thinks of him as the main accused for the lost dream of a talented runner, but this film manages to show the undiluted love and dreams of a coach for his prodigy. The bars and limits that were being pushed, but never beyond that was unbearable.
Director Padhi shows that there is something amiss with the murder of Das, not directly, but indirectly, just reading between the lines, that it may have been the result of some conspiracy. He is highlighting towards the humanity and instinct that one seems to have around these clichés.
The chemistry between Bajpayee and Mayur is screen-boggling. They have well suited in their roles, individually, but together it comes out at a better juncture. Manoj Bajpayee justifies the character of suspenseful Das, the halo of his persona makes this one of the best roles played by Bajpayee. Mayur Patole as Budhia is convincing as hell and just steals your heart with his raw performance. The best one to look for is when he meets Biranchi at the facility centre. Shuti Marathe as Gits, wife of Das, plays a role of typical wife, with little regression and less hopefulness that begins after the arrival of Budhia. But still supports her husband through thick and thin.
The movie has been released close to Rio Olympics as this was the dream of Das for Budhia, who took hearts all across the country, ran a 70km marathon from Puri to Bhubaneshwar in Odisha. A boy who has all the potential to win medal for India in Olympics 2016. But with his ban has prevented him to do so, which is a result of long struggle between his coach and Child Welfare. This movie Budhia Singh – Born to Run is documentation of a dream lost to politics and mystery.
This has to be witnessed by every Indian to know how the sports welfare has been affected by politics or rather how these people-of-no-heart destroy someone’s blooming dream. Keep your faith in country’s welfare, then to keep it with some particular persona. Think of the child, before thinking of what he has gone through. Think for once, what they have made him go through all these years.
For me, this is a must-watch. No air of doubt.
