You have to be a crab to survive in India. The only way to get fresher air at higher altitudes is to step over other crabs. In case you find fresh air without climbing, before you breathe it in, a dozen other crabs would have jumped on you. Once you get used to the suffocation, occasionally a climber will step over you.
Trivia: Gemma Atwal whose documentary inspired the film said "There was a small part of Biranchi Das, the boy's coach, that reminded me of my own adoptive father, who took in a rag-tag band of eight unwanted kids from diverse Hindu, Sikh and Muslim backgrounds, and gave them a stable upbringing. Similar to Budhia's mum, my birth- mother belonged to the lowest Hindu caste and lived in extreme poverty."
The movie reminds you how fickle Indian media becomes feverishly evangelical erupting with live news returning equally fast to its eternal malaise. To highlight this I am appending comments from Gemma Atwal that just won't resonate with Indian media:
"Perhaps some people (read Indian media) would say that Budhia has been released from the man who enslaved him, but for this small boy, he's lost the only loving advocate and mentor he ever had. I had been having these conversations with Biranchi where he was saying that, 'There were people who want to take me out' and 'My days are numbered.' He was saying crazy things, like, 'If anything happens to me, please take care of Budhia.'"
Although I haven't seen the documentary, the movie seems to be an amplified message of the documentary in a more Indian flavour format. It's obviously made its mark on me. The movie perhaps also remotely takes a jibe at another Indian cliché that motherhood precedes fatherhood by showing a foster father who is truer to the adopted son than his own birth mother.
Trivia: Gemma Atwal whose documentary inspired the film said "There was a small part of Biranchi Das, the boy's coach, that reminded me of my own adoptive father, who took in a rag-tag band of eight unwanted kids from diverse Hindu, Sikh and Muslim backgrounds, and gave them a stable upbringing. Similar to Budhia's mum, my birth- mother belonged to the lowest Hindu caste and lived in extreme poverty."
The movie reminds you how fickle Indian media becomes feverishly evangelical erupting with live news returning equally fast to its eternal malaise. To highlight this I am appending comments from Gemma Atwal that just won't resonate with Indian media:
"Perhaps some people (read Indian media) would say that Budhia has been released from the man who enslaved him, but for this small boy, he's lost the only loving advocate and mentor he ever had. I had been having these conversations with Biranchi where he was saying that, 'There were people who want to take me out' and 'My days are numbered.' He was saying crazy things, like, 'If anything happens to me, please take care of Budhia.'"
Although I haven't seen the documentary, the movie seems to be an amplified message of the documentary in a more Indian flavour format. It's obviously made its mark on me. The movie perhaps also remotely takes a jibe at another Indian cliché that motherhood precedes fatherhood by showing a foster father who is truer to the adopted son than his own birth mother.