In the 1960s Dashrath Manjhi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) lived in a small village Gehlaur near Gaya, Bihar, India with his family including his wife Phaguniya Devi (Radhika Apte) and his son. There was a rocky mountain near his village that people either had to climb across or travel round to gain access to medical care at the nearest town Wazirganj. One day Manjhi's wife (when pregnant) fell while trying to cross the mountain and eventually died giving birth to a girl, after which Manjhi decided to carve a road through it. When he started hammering the hill people called him a lunatic but that only steeled his resolve further. After 22 years of back-breaking labour, Manjhi carved a path 360 feet long, 25 feet deep in places and 30 feet wide. Manjhi died in 2007. The film's postscript states that 52 years after he started breaking the mountain, 30 years after he finished and 4 years after his death the government finally made a metalled road to Gehlaur in 2011. He fought with the Indian government for the development of their village and for the availability of hospitals and road.
मांझी - द माउंटन मॅन
Manjhi - The Mountain Man
पर्वत मान
The Mountain Man
Details
Mis Spell Name
- Maajhi, Mazi, Maazi, Maajhee, Majhee
Genre
- Drama
Production House
- Viacom 18 Motion Pictures,NFDC India,Maya Movies
Producer
- Bilal Khan, Deepa Sahi
Director
- Ketan Mehta
Composer
- Himesh Reshammiya
Censor Date
- 08/08/2015
Censor Year
- 2015
Released date
- 21/08/2015
Released Year
- 2015
Censor Board Details (Central Board of Film Certification)
Certificate No :
- UA 0000
Certificate Date :
- 08/08/2015
Office :
- Mumbai
Guage :
- -
Length :
- 10194 Feet 3398 Meters
Duration :
- 129 Minutes
Reels :
- 11
Color :
- Coloured
Native Language :
- Hindi
Dubbed Languages:
- Another Language
- Producer : Bilal Khan , Deepa Sahi
- Director : Ketan Mehta
- Writer : Ketan Mehta , Anjum Rajabali
- Composer : Himesh Reshammiya
- Lyricist : Deepak Ramola , Ketan Mehta , Kumaar
- Actor : Nawazuddin Siddiqui
- Actress : Radhika Apte
- Track 1 : Gehlore Ki Goriya ( गहलोरे की गोरिया )
- Track 2 : O Rahi ( हे रही )
- Track 3 : Dum Kham ( दम खामो )