CHANDU CHAMPION is the story of a man who refused to surrender. The year is 1952. A young Murlikant Petkar (Kartik Aaryan) resides in Islampur, Maharashtra with his father, mother and brother Jagannath. Murli and Jagannath witness K D Jadhav, the first Indian to win an Olympic medal, being welcomed... with a lot of pomp and love at Karad railway station. Murlikant decides then and there that he'll also emerge victorious at the Olympics. His schoolmates make fun of him for his dream. They even call him 'Chandu Champion' to mock him. Murlikant joins the akhada of Ganpat Kaka (Ganesh Yadav). Murlikant is a keen observer, and he learns a lot of techniques just by observing the matches of other wrestlers. Ganpat sends him to play with Dagdu, the son of a local chieftain, Nanasaheb Patil, hoping that Dagdu will win, and the chieftain will feel proud. However, Murlikant gives Dagdu a crushing defeat. All hell breaks loose and Murlikant runs away. He hops onto a train where he meets Garnail Singh (Bhuvan Arora). When Murlikant informs him about his dream of winning an Olympic medal, Garnail suggests that he should join the Army. As luck would have it, Murlikant gets shortlisted and joins the armed forces. He also starts training in boxing under Tiger Ali (Vijay Raaz). All is going well until one day while fighting in the 1965 war in Kashmir, his life turns upside down. What happens next forms the rest of the film.
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