Manu Bhaker speaks to Brut

Brut India

“I’ll probably crack dad jokes.” Who is Manu Bhaker beyond an Olympic shooter? ⭐️

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00:00So, honestly, in school times, I was never able to make friends.

00:04I have, like, two friends, in total.

00:07I'll probably crack dad jokes.

00:09Someone once asked me in the village,

00:11what do you do?

00:12So, when I used to tell them that I do shooting,

00:15they used to wonder what advertisement,

00:18what movie, what is this shooting about?

00:20So, they never thought that there is a game too.

00:23This is Manu Bhakar for Brute.

00:30Shooting gave me the life.

00:32I mean, shooting gave me everything that I have today.

00:35But, I do not think about what it did not give me

00:41or what it took away from me.

00:45I mean, like, maybe friends,

00:47maybe the normal school-college life.

00:49But, I do not have any regrets.

00:51And I'm really happy that I got to do this.

00:54I mean, I'm really happy that I got to do this.

00:56I mean, I'm really happy that I got to do this.

00:58I do not have any regrets.

00:59And I'm really happy that I'm still shooting.

01:02And I will continue to do so, for a long time.

01:09So, honestly, in school times,

01:10I was never able to make friends.

01:14Maybe one friend I have from school.

01:17Then, college, I don't have any friends at all.

01:20One person was like,

01:22she was helping me throughout my exams

01:25and assignments and all.

01:26So, actually, I mean, like, school life and college life.

01:30As in that, I was not able to spend time

01:32with my schoolmates or my classmates or my college mates.

01:35But, I have, like, two friends in total.

01:39So, it's not like I regret it or anything.

01:42I mean, two friends I have and I'm really grateful.

01:45They have been wonderful

01:46and always been there for my journey.

01:48See, every person feels lonely at times.

01:50But, it's not like you're the only one who feels that way.

01:55It's like, sometimes you feel low, sometimes you feel good.

01:58So, it's just a matter of mood and a matter of how you feel.

02:01But, for me, personally, I think I have my family.

02:03I have my friends to back me up.

02:12I'll probably be doing, like, painting or playing violin

02:16or doing some dance form.

02:18Probably horseback riding or just fitness.

02:25I think within two, three years, I was like,

02:27okay, it's going serious now.

02:28I was actually going with the flow.

02:30So, it started to become more and more serious.

02:32I was shooting senior events.

02:33I was shooting, like, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and all.

02:37That time, I was like, okay, it's a transparent sport.

02:40It's a good sport.

02:41No age limit at all.

02:42No weight barriers.

02:43So, just go with the flow.

02:45So, I just kept going with the flow.

02:51I do not like to talk when I'm shooting.

02:53I do not like to be socially engaged when I'm at the range.

02:58But out of it, I think I'm a very chill kind of person.

03:02I'll probably crack dad jokes.

03:06I watch a lot of stand-up comedy also.

03:08So, I'm a very simple and, like, fun-loving,

03:13easy-going kind of person, I would say.

03:15But others would be able to tell better.

03:24I used to find shooting very cool.

03:26I used to find it cool in the sense that when I used to tell others,

03:29especially, like, if someone in the village used to ask me,

03:32like, what do you do?

03:33So, when I used to say, like, let's shoot like this.

03:36So, they used to think, like, I don't know what advertisement I did,

03:39what movie I did, what kind of shooting is this?

03:41So, they would never think that there's a game also.

03:43So, I used to find it very cool to tell them that we have guns and all.

03:48We shoot bullets.

03:49So, it's a game, let's do that.

03:51So, that was very cool.

03:52I used to find that very cool.

03:58Ghee and butter will definitely be there.

04:00And milk, curd, butter and lassi, all this,

04:05it's like I can't live without it.

04:07I can't have my lunch without it.

04:08I can't eat without it.

04:10So, this will definitely be there, always.

04:17See, honestly, if we want India to become a sporting nation,

04:20we definitely need to do a lot in that forte.

04:23And just celebrating several wins,

04:28or just being attentive at several competitions is,

04:32I mean, it can be helpful,

04:34but not in a way that, you know, India should be.

04:38Because India has a huge potential,

04:40so many people, so much of talent,

04:43and so many aspiring athletes also.

04:45So, we have a huge scope of growth.

04:50So, we must also focus on that,

04:52that how to become a sporting nation.

04:54Many things need to be done.

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