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Unsung heroes, not a burden
Business Standard|July 27, 2024
Filmmaker Kabir Khan's biopic Chandu Champion (2024), which he co-wrote with Sumit Arora and Sudipto Sarkar, brings to light the attitudinal and infrastructural barriers that India's first Paralympic gold medalist Murlikant Petkar had to overcome throughout his life.
- CHINTAN GIRISH MODI

Actor Kartik Aaryan's excellent portrayal of Petkar fills a huge gap in the public memory of this athlete's contributions. Petkar, who won an individual gold medal in the 50-metre freestyle event at the 1972 Heidelberg Paralympics, received the Padma Shri only in 2018.

Aparna Jain's book Boys Will Be Boys: Inspiring Stories for Smart Kids (2019), published by Westland, with a chapter on Petkar, emphasises that he has served India in more ways than one. As an army officer posted in Kashmir during the India-Pakistan war of 1965, "he tooknine bullets in his thigh, leg, spine and eye" and also "fell from a height to a road below, where a truck ran over him, leaving him in agony”. He turned to swimming because he was paralysed waist down, and the doctor advised him to swim to regain strength in his legs.

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