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How reel life inspired Nikhil's real life
The Morning Standard
|September 14, 2025
From wheelchair to athletic tracks, Nikhil's journey to realize his paralympic dream shows how cinema can ignite courage, make one believe in second chances, narrates Anuraag Singh
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ACK in 1972, Indian Army soldier Murlikant Petkar, who suffered paraplegia (paralysis of both legs and the lower part of the body) in the 1965 India-Pakistan War, overcame the disability with sheer will to win the country's first Paralympic gold with a world record timing in 50m freestyle swimming.
More than half a century later, the same Kartik Aaryan-starrer 2024 Bollywood flick, 'Chandu Champion', a biopic based on Petkar's life, is inspiring a 25-year-old paraplegic youth, Nikhil Rajput, in Madhya Pradesh to chase his Paralympic dream. Paralysed below the chest due to a mishap in March 2023, Nikhil, a resident of Bankhedi village in central MP's Narmadapuram district, has won three gold medals and two silvers in a span of just six months at two successive State Para Athletics Championships at Gwalior and Bhopal.
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