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Ahead of the release of the film Budhia Singh Born to Run, the real Budhia Singh, a child marathoner who had participated in over 40 events by the time he was five years old, met the sports minister Vijay Goel in Delhi along with actor Manoj Bajpayee. The film is based on Budhia’s life with Bajpayee playing Birachi Das, his coach and is set to release on 5th August.
Singh, who hails from Odissa, was barely five years old when he ran from Puri to Bhubaneshwar, a distance of 65 km, in around seven hours, led by his then coach, Das. The 14-year-old Budhia is now on the lookout for a coach to train him for the next Olympics.
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