First look of film on Budhia Singh out

By Debasis Barik

Bhubaneswar/ Mumbai: The first teaser poster of upcoming Bollywood film ‘Budhia Singh – Born To Run’ directed by Soumendra Padhi is out.

The film is a biopic about Budhia Singh, a kid hailing from Salia Sahi slum in Bhubaneswar who ran 48 marathons — one of which was from Puri to Bhubaneswar, even before he turned five.

The film deals with the phase of Budhia’s life when he met his coach Biranchi Das, his rise as a child prodigy and his subsequent downfall.

Pune-based child actor Mayur essays Budhia’s role while Tillotama Shome plays the boy’s mother Sukanti Singh. A major portion of the movie was shot in Bhubaneswar.

“After thinking long and hard and taking several factors into consideration, we have zeroed in on August 5 as the date for the release of the film,” said Padhi, who did hundreds of ad films for TV before venturing into feature films.

The poster of 'Budhia Singh - Born To Run' - with Budhia is silhouette running against the backdrop of a flaming yellow hued Sun rising - looks quite impressive whetting the viewer's appetite for the actual film.

The film stars National Award winning actor Manoj Bajpayee in the lead playing the child wizard's co a h alongside Master Mayur and Tillotama Shome.

The much awaited film has been produced by Viacom18 Motion Pictures and Code Red Film Productions.