This Mysuru family all set to create ‘Dangal’

 

7-year-old lass in Rifah action packet enjoys the thrill of riding a quad bike in the open ground 

 

Taking a leaf out of the hit movie 'Dangal', here is a real life story of a young girl from Mysuru, whose father has sacrificed his life and earnings just to see her daughter become a Formula One car racer.  

 

Tajuddin, a resident of NR Mohalla, and a national-level car racer had dreamt of becoming a World Champion. But, he could not realize his dream due to lack of financial support and other commitments. Instead he decided to fulfill his dream through his two daughters.  

Tajuddin has trained his 7-year-old daughter Rifah Taskeen, a 2nd standard student of St Joseph School to drive not just a car but even a lorry and every kind of bike. He started training Rifah when she was just 3 years old. Over the past four years, she even learnt driving lorry, quad bike and bikes of different makes. Rifah who drives confidently and cautiously is so talented that she effortlessly perform car drifting and also drive the vehicle in reverse gear for more than 50 rounds.  

  

The family has completed the documentation process and has submitted the same for both Guinness World Records and Limca World Record. They hope the girl will enter the record books.  

 

Father builds quad bike   

 

Tajuddin has built a quad bike using spare parts from different vehicles, all from scratch. He has made use of parts from mopeds, engine from Kinetic Honda,  Chassis of  Suzuki Samurai, tyres of scooty Pep to build the vehicle. As he did not have any prior experience he had to face several challenges to  assemble the vehicle and took six months to build it.

 

Rifah can now drive any power steering vehicle with ease and she enjoys the thrill of riding the vehicles. Rifah can complete 50 rounds driving in reverse. She has even participated in race competitions held at Mandya and Mysore. Extra seat, extra pedals are attached for lorries to make her feel comfortable.  

Give an opportunity  

 

“A boy in America has set a record at the age of 10 in racing by driving a normal car, which even can my daughter do it. She drives car (alto 800, swift, santro, scorpio, innova, lancer, goods vehicle like tata ace, bolero, eicher lorry, etc. There are no girls have created a world championship. In foreign countries talented children are encouraged and there is lot of scope for racing. We request government to give an opportunity to showcase our daughter talent at the the torch light parade to be held at Bannimantap during Dasara,” added Tajuddin .

Tajuddin had won more than 40 silver trophies, and has to his credit several prizes in racing. He has also worked as stunt artist in few films. His dreams is to train his daughter to drive a Ferrari vehicle when she reaches 17.  

She will be undergoing training in Bengaluru next month and is planning to take part in a major race event to be shortly held in Tamil Nadu. If she wins, she will be  representing India in Nationals and World Championship.   

My father is role model

Adventure enthusiast Rifah says: "My father is a role model for me and am blessed to have him in my life. He sits besides me and guides me. I love driving. It is a very thrilling experience to drive vehicles in reverse and my favourite is riding quad bike.I want to become a pilot in future and a world popular and famous rider. Am also passionate about Aero glider, and wish to undergo training at Aeromodelling Glider Center at Mangalore.

 

“We are proud of her. She is driving the vehicle since she was 3. We take all safety measures while driving and we allow her to practice only on vacant grounds,” adds Mother Bibi Fathima, a Urdu School Teacher.

 

Sister Shifa who has also learnt to ride gears vehicles said: ‘We are concentrating and committed only to make her world champion racer. For the past several years, he has left the job and has dedicated himself to train Rifah. Mother looks after the family. Our only dream is to make her world championship Racer.’

According to law, there is no permission to drive any vehicle on public way for the minors. Whereas, any age group of people can drive in their private place and its not a offense.