Manjhi - The Mountain Man
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Directed by | Ketan Mehta |
Produced by | Nina Lath Gupta Deepa Sahi |
Written by | Ketan Mehta Anjum Rajabali Mahendra Jhakar |
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Cinematography | Rajiv Jain[1] |
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Distributed by | Maya Movies |
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Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Box office | est. ₹10.42 crore (US$1.5 million) (1 week)[2] |
Manjhi - The Mountain Man is a 2015 Indian biographical film, based on the life of Dashrath Manjhi. Manjhi, widely known as the "Mountain Man", was a poor labourer in Gehlaur village, near Gaya in Bihar, India, who carved a path 9.1 metres (30 ft) wide and 110 metres (360 ft) long through a hill 7.6 metres (25 ft) using only a hammer and chisel.[3] The film is directed by Ketan Mehta, jointly produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures and NFDC India.[4] Upon release the film received positive critical acclaim.[5][6][7]
Nawazuddin Siddiqui enacted the role of Dashrath Manjhi, while Radhika Apte played Manjhi's wife. The film was released worldwide on 21 August 2015. Prior to its release preview copy of movie leaked on web on 10 August 2015.[8] The Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) cyber police station had registered a case against a few unknown persons for leaking the movie.[9] The Bihar State Government declared the film tax-free on 30 July 2015.[10]
Plot
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). 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 fell while trying to cross the mountain, 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.
Cast
- Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Dashrath Manjhi
- Radhika Apte as Phaguniya-Dashrath's wife
- Tigmanshu Dhulia as Mukhiya(landlord) [11]
- Pankaj Tripathi as Ruab (the landlord's son)
- Gaurav Dwivedi as Alok Jha (a journalist)
- Urmila Mahanta as Lauki
- Ashraful Haque as Magru-Dashrath's father [12]
- Jagat Rawat as Shuklaji
- Varadraj Swami as Gopal's Father
- Deepa Sahi as Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
- Prashant Narayanan as Jhumru
Soundtrack
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Soundtrack album by Sandesh Shandilya, Hitesh Sonik | |
Released | 9 August 2015 |
Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
Length | 10:45 |
Label | Zee Music Company |
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Gehlore Ki Goriya" | Deepak Ramola | Sandesh Shandilya | Bhavin Shastri, Pawani Pandey | 3.40 |
2. | "O Rahi" | Ketan Mehta | Sandesh Shandilya | Bhavin Shastri | 4.42 |
3. | "Dum Kham" | Kumaar | Hitesh Sonik | Divya Kumar | 3.03 |
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Critical reception
Sweta Kaushal of Hindustan Times termed the film an inspiring, touching tale of a common man and gave the film 4.5 stars out of 5.[13] Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave the film 3 stars.[5] Meena Iyer of Times of India gave it 3 stars.[14] Bollywood Hungama gave it 2.5 stars.[15] Shubhra Gupta of Indian Express gave it two stars.[16]
References
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