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Kid Kulafu’ is not your usual rags-to-riches movie

Actor Buboy Villar (right) plays the young Manny Pacquiao in the film Kid Kulafu' directed by Paul Soriano (left).

(CNN Philippines) — Not too long ago, there was a scrawny boy called “Kid Kulafu,” named after a brand of wine whose bottles he collected back then.

That kid, of course, is now a man — or “Pacman,” as he is more popularly known now – the Filipino boxing superstar whose meteoric rise from humble beginnings made him one of the most popular and richest boxers in the planet today.

With just a little over two weeks left before Manny Pacquiao’s blockbuster faceoff against U.S. pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr., the film Kid Kulafu gave the world a glimpse into Pacquiao’s challenging childhood. The movie hit local theaters Wednesday (April 15).

Pacquiao’s story before he became a world-renowned ring warrior is no secret, but the biopic Kid Kulafu takes us back to the untold truth of his painstaking rags-to-riches journey.

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