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| Children run at full pace to keep up with a fast moving truck to steal Coal from a Government truck transporting Coal from a mine at Dhanbad, 2010 - Photo Subhash Sharma. |
Soon to be released Bollywood movie 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' - is reportedly based on legendary 'Flying Sikh' - Indian Olympian and super sprinter 'Milkha Singh' who could run as if there was no tomorrow.
I encountered sprinters of a different kind who too would run for sheer life to steal coal or go hungry...literally as their daily existence depended on that....Guess if these children were instead put in a athletic school will they not make super runners ? In an irony of sorts, India's sport's talent, be it in running, hockey or archery comes from the hinterland where sheer hardships and often times desperation trains and hardens them.
....On my asking how they could run so fast one of these boys remarked : 'Jab G... pe Polisiya Daanda padne kar darr lagta hai... toh apne aap aag ki tarah bhagna aa jaata hai ' as they burst out laughing..
Says Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra , the director of the movie Bhaag
Milkha Bhaag , “The 1st race Milkha Singh ran was for a glass of
milk! His first race was cross-country; he didn't even know what a cross
country race was. But they said the first ten are going to get a glass of milk
as their diet and will be selected for the army training team, and he ran for
that.” Strange similarities here.
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