“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.