User Reviews

Very engaging. So relevant right now and inspires young women to seek out and follow their passion

I have been a runner for years and love seeing others getting something out of this sport that I can relate to.

Very inspirational, especially for women in india who are often constrained from running because of social mores.

The documentary is very moving, especially the story of the maid who runs to make enough money to buy a house someday. The background music is also very catchy.

Most motivational and inspirational documentary that I have seen!

I wish more such documentaries of a changing India are made. Vrinda beautifully weaves her way thru the running fabric of a group of women. The inner feelings of hope and inspiration, courage and determination of these women are subtly captured. Pleasing background music.

I started running again! Yes, I did. Thanks to this brilliant little inspiring piece of hard work and motivation which confronted me right from the beginning of the film. When I started to see the film, I was kinda prepared to watch another motivational film, sporty types..you know the kinds that have super models or healthy bodies or in simple terms, unrelatable ones? Exactly! That's what I thought this film would be about. But little did I expect a pregnant woman and a super senior citizen to show up n blow my mind! Wow! Now, that's unconventional! Actually,the film helped me burst a lot of myths and silly questions I had for a long time..the kind of questions you wou This documentary will stay with me for long is all I can say.

Very Inspiring. I first saw this documentary in the New York Indian Film Festival and it made a big impression. I found it in Netflix recently and was very excited to watch it again. Every time I watch it, it motivates me to go running. It is inspiring to see women from different walks of life and different ages start from running a short distance and gradually move up to running marathons. The director weaves the vignettes together masterfully into a wonderful story that captures the budding movement of women runners in India.

The movie sweetly captures the quite strength of women who make things work for themselves with passion, grace & sensitivity. The candidness of their stories is endearing & it makes you want to root for them!

My parents never ran. I do not remember them running over or running away from anything. They practically expected others to run around doing things for them. In fact, nobody in their generation ran. It seemed running, and activities that required exertion is for the young. Older adults simply do not do those things which broke too much sweat. Things surely have changed over the years.

Members of the fairer sex also never had it so good. From a time not too long ago, 1967 actually, runners like Bobbi Gibb and Katherine Switzer had to run disguised, now, in most international marathons, the male to female ratio of participants of the full marathon is almost one to one.

Why do people run?

This made-in-India documentary looks at the lives of eight ladies and why they took up running. Despite the constant staring, cat-calling and security concerns, these lady runners seem to be empowered. The every extra half-hour that they manage to run without stopping, they get a renewed zest in life. The running events that they complete equips them with higher level of confidence.

Some run to numb the pains of their personal lives. It may be a broken marriage or even exodus from homeland like the runner from Kashmir who calls herself a Delhi-ite these days after being chased out from her ancestral home in Srinagar by religious zealots.

When the worldly duties are done, your offspring do not want you meddling with their affairs, but you are still teeming with energy, what do you do? Like Fauja Singh or Forrest Gump, you run, of course. Once you are locked into the routine, nothing can stop you - rain, shine, snow or fracture!

Runners make friends quickly, are more grounded and are a kind lot, looking out for each other and showing a high level of camaraderie. You hardly find a grumpy runner, do you?

There is no good enough reason not to run. Run before you are prescribed running to save your life. If you do not have a quality sleep, run; feeling down, run; hit a wall at work, run; you got bad genes that make you susceptible to lifestyle diseases, run.

If you cannot run, walk. Then alternate the walk with a run, and before you know it, you would be running for your life. What further motivation do you need? When you run, you are fighting the same inner demons that bog you down, dragging you with all the failures of life. Unchain the shackles.

In this documentary, a lady, hit by childhood paralysis, poverty and hard knocks of life runs for the money. The lure of the prize money brings her places. Her misery is no longer an excuse not to train.

Done with finesse, this 1-hour documentary is told seamless infusing many elements that are quintessentially Indian, the decorations, outdoors, and a peek into their places where they hangout. Humanity component is not forgotten as well. Exercise and running also help physically challenged individuals.

Movie is awe inspiring and I was spell bound watching the stories of these Great Women. I am sure it would go a long way in inspiring many many women to take up something that gives them their "My Time". Each of the runners that were chosen are unbelievable. Hope the movie gets screened in all the film festivals and win a lot of accolades