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Motihari, Feb. 16: Sushil Kumar, the first winner of Rs 5 crore at Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC), will now be the subject of a documentary film that would depict his rise to fame.
A four-member team Netherlands-based documentary filmmaking company, B-Pro, visited Kumar’s home in Motihari to shoot the documentary that would showcase the changing face of Bihar.
Hens Paul, the director of the film titled Bihar to Bengaluru, told The Telegraph: “We want to project the change experienced by Bihar in recent times. We also want to show Sushil Kumar as a role model for the people of Netherlands.” The film will be shot in seven parts.
Sushil, basking in the glory of pocketing the Rs 5-crore cheque, said he was happy to do his bit for the state. “It seems that my achievement in KBC has had a global impact. Now, people think of Bihar differently,” he said.
The crorepati five times over added: “I would like to request the youth in the state to set new examples so that more people are attracted to Bihar.”
The young man, who was a computer operator under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, has a hectic schedule now returning home after inaugurating three cyber centres in prisons in Calcutta. He told The Telegraph: “The first Valentine’s Day of my married life was a little strange. While most other youths all over the world spend this day with their beloved, I was busy in inaugurating computer centres at prisons in Calcutta. On February 14, I opened computer centres at Presidency Jail, Alipore Jail and Women’s Jail.” Sushil tied the nuptial knot on May 21 last year.
He added that non-government organisation Vedanta Foundation sponsored these centres. “Yesterday, too, I was at Ekma in Saran to inaugurate a computer centre,” Sushil said. Art culture and youth affairs minister Sukhda Pandey has invited Sushil to take part in a cycle rally in Patna on February 23. The rally would be organised as a part of the state’s centenary celebrations. Sushil said: “The minister called me yesterday and invited me. I will be very happy to take part in it.” He has also been invited to be at the national Kurmi conference scheduled on February 18 in Bhopal. The Champaran youth is now the brand ambassador of the Union ministry of rural development in five states. He is also a believer in joint families and claims the gradual fragmentation of large families into nuclear one has weakened the moral fabric of the society.
His plan to build a house at his village Hanumangadhi, where he can share the fruits of his achievements with his kith and kin, is also under way.
Only his dream of cracking the Union Public Service Commission examination is yet to see the light of day.
“It is difficult to fulfil that dream under present circumstances,” he said.