Manjhi - The Mountain Man is a biopic of India 2015, based on the life of Dashrath Manjhi. Manjhi, widely known as the "Mountain Man", is a poor laborer in the village of Gehlaur, near Gaya in Bihar, India, which carries 9.1 meters (30 feet) and 110 meters (360 feet) through 7.6 meters (25Ã, ft) using only hammer and chisel. The film is directed by Ketan Mehta, which is jointly produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures and NFDC India. Once released, the film received positive critical acclaim.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui endorsed the role of Dashrath Manjhi, while Radhika Apte played Manjhi's wife. The film was released worldwide on August 21, 2015. Prior to its launch, a preview copy of the film was leaked on the web on August 10, 2015. Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) cyber police station has filed a case against several unknown people for leaking the film. The state government of Bihar declared a tax-free movie on July 30, 2015.
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Plot
In the 1960s Dashrath Manjhi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) lived in a small village of Gehlaur near Gaya, Bihar, India with his family including his wife Phaguniya Devi (Radhika Apte) and his son. There is a rocky mountain near his village that people must climb or travel to get access to medical care in the nearby town of Wazirganj. One day Manjhi's wife (while pregnant) crashed while trying to cross the mountain and eventually died while giving birth to a girl, after which Manjhi decided to carve a way through it. When he starts hammering the hill people call him a madman, but that only strengthens his resolve further. After 22 years of back-breaking work, Manjhi carved along 360 feet, 25 feet in place and 30 feet wide.
Manjhi died in 2007. The movie script records that 52 years after he began to break the mountain, 30 years after he was finished and 4 years after his death, the government finally made its way to Gehlaur in 2011.
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Cast
- Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Dashrath Manjhi
- Radhika Apte as Phaguniya-Dashrath's wife
- Tigmanshu Dhulia as Mukhiya (landlord)
- Pankaj Tripathi as Ruab (son of the landlord)
- Gaurav Dwivedi as Alok Jha (a journalist)
- Urmila Mahanta as Lauki
- Ashraful Haque as Magru-Dashrath's father
- Jagat Sawat as Shuklaji
- Varadraj Swami as Gopal's father
- Deepa Sahi as Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi
- Prashant Narayanan as Jhumru
- Rashaana Shah as Bhanwari Soundtrack
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Critical reception
Sweta Kaushal of Hindustan Times termed the film as an inspiring and touching story from an ordinary man and gave the film 4.5 stars out of 5. Saibal Chatterjee from NDTV gave the movie 3 stars. Meena Iyer from Times of India gave it 3 stars. Bollywood Hungama gave him 2.5 stars. Shubhra Gupta from Indian Express gave him two stars.
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External links
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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