Budhia Singh Runs Marathon

Budhia Singh, who was suspected to be abducted, was on Sunday spotted at Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu

Budhia Singh, who shot to limelight after setting a new Limca record by successfully running a marathon of 65 km from Puri to Bhubaneswar in seven hours in May, 2006 at the tender age of four, was staying in the sports hostel after several child rights activists alleged exploitation of the boy

Gemma Atwal's documentary Marathon Boy, a film-festival favorite that will be shown on HBO on Thursday night, is a wrenching experience largely because it uses the moods and methods of true crime and pulp fiction to tell a story that is nominally about poverty, politics and the toxic mingling of celebrity culture and national pride in modern India.

Budhia Singh, who was suspected to be abducted, was on Sunday spotted at Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu

Budhia Singh, who shot to limelight after setting a new Limca record by successfully running a marathon of 65 km from Puri to Bhubaneswar in seven hours in May, 2006 at the tender age of four, was staying in the sports hostel after several child rights activists alleged exploitation of the boy

Gemma Atwal's documentary Marathon Boy, a film-festival favorite that will be shown on HBO on Thursday night, is a wrenching experience largely because it uses the moods and methods of true crime and pulp fiction to tell a story that is nominally about poverty, politics and the toxic mingling of celebrity culture and national pride in modern India.