''Budhia Singh – Born to Run'' is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language

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directed by Soumendra Padhi. It is based on the life of Budhia Singh, the world's youngest marathon runner, who ran 48 marathons, when he was only five years old. The film stars

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as a coach and Mayur Patole as the title character. It won the Best Children's Film award at the

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in 2016.

Cast

as Biranchi Das *Mayur Patole as Budhia Singh *

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as Sukanti *

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as Gita *Chhaya Kadam as Minister of Child Welfare *

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as litu *Prasad Pandit as JD Pattanaik *

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as chairman, Child Welfare *Rajan Bhise as Dr Mohanty *Shivraj D Walvekar as B S Gill *

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as journalist

Production

Director Soumendra Padhi had auditioned more than 1200 kids for the title role from different states including

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, Pune, Delhi and Mumbai, before he finalized Mayur for the role.

Music

The music for the film is composed by Sidhant Mathur, Ishaan Chhabra and Hitesh Sonik while the lyrics have been penned by Abhishek Dubey, Gopal Datt, Prashant Ingole and Vikrant Yadav.

References

External links

Website
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