Budhia Singh – Born to Run

Budhia Singh – Born to Run is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographical sports film 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.^[1] The film stars Manoj Bajpayee as a coach and Mayur Patole as the title character. It won the Best Children's Film award at the 63rd National Film Awards in 2016.

Budhia Singh – Born to Run
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Soumendra Padhi
Written by	Soumendra Padhi
Screenplay by	Soumendra Padhi
Produced by	Viacom 18 Motion Pictures Code Red Films
Starring	Manoj Bajpayee Mayur Patole
Cinematography	Manoj Kumar Khatoi
Edited by	Shivkumar V. Panicker
Music by	Songs: Hitesh Sonik Sidhant Mathur Background Score: Ishaan Chhabra
Production company	Code Red Films
Distributed by	Viacom18 Motion Pictures
Release date	5 August 2016 (2016-08-05)
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Cast

• Manoj Bajpayee as Biranchi Das
• Mayur Patole as Budhia Singh
• Tillotama Shome as Sukanti
• Shruti Marathe as Gita
• Chhaya Kadam as Minister of Child Welfare
• Gopal K Singh as litu
• Prasad Pandit as JD Pattanaik
• Gajraj Rao as chairman, Child Welfare
• Rajan Bhise as Dr Mohanty
• Shivraj D Walvekar as B S Gill
• Pushkaraj Chirputkar as journalist

Production

Director Soumendra Padhi had auditioned more than 1200 kids for the title role from different states including Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Pune, Delhi and Mumbai, before he finalized Mayur for the role.^[2]

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.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Born to Run Anthem"	Prashant Ingole	Hitesh Sonik	Arhaan Hussain, Siddharth Mahadevan	2:31
2.	"Sunapua..Tu Daud Daud"	Gopal Datt	Sidhant Mathur	Rituraj Mohanty	2:12
Total length:					4:43