Kartik Aaryan's Chandu Champion: Smart money lessons you can learn from this film
Also Read: Gullak Season 4 on SonyLIV: 3 valuable money lessons to learn from the seriesSo what will a savvy investor do with a film like this? Simple. Wait for it to appear on an OTT Platform, of course. You will save ticket money and be able to fast forward through the forgettable songs and stock characters spouting predictable dialogue.
Apart from that there are two money lessons to learn.All the kids in the village laugh at Murlikant Petkar’s life-goal to become an Olympic gold medalist, calling him a ‘chandu champion’ (champion of losers). His father refuses to let him learn to wrestle, beating him because he fails repeatedly at school. When he runs away and joins the army, fellow recruits laugh at his ambition too.
His opponents in the boxing ring laugh at him and he wins every boxing match except one. Life is not easy for him, he is hit by nine bullets during the war and one is lodged in his spine which renders him paralysed from waist down. And yet he perseveres and participates in the paralympics and wins the first gold medal for 50 m freestyle event.
Also Read: Panchayat Season 3 Goes Fiscal! 3 hidden money lessons to learn from the seriesHe even attempts to sue the government for an Arjuna award for his achievements but is ignored. It’s only after a journalist and the local cops enquire that the Army is forced to look at his records and he ends up receiving the Padma Shri. As an investor, you will be the first to acknowledge that some of your investments may fail.
