Chandu Champion is a biopic drama and the inspirational real-life story of Murlikant Petkar (played by Kartik Aaryan), India's first paralympic gold medalist in 1972. The film narrates the story of Murlikant Patekar since he was a young man aspiring to become a wrestler in his village to being a jawan in the Army where he shifts to boxing but his ambition of winning an Olympic medal is shattered during the 1965 Indo-Pak war when bullets are fired at him by the Pakistani soldiers. The bullets lodged in his spine leave him paralysed but without losing hope he decides to train in swimming and take part in the Heidelberg Paralympics where he wins a gold medal and after years of obscurity he is awarded the Padma Shri in 2018.