| Manjhi: The Mountain Man (2015) Also Known As: Dashrath Manjhi - The Mountain Man Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2015 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Biography, Drama
Description Based on a soul stirring true story of Dashrath Manjhi, a landless farmer from the lowest of low castes, in a small village of Bihar. The village was cut off from the world by a rocky mountain range. He loved his wife Phaguniya, beyond belief. One day while climbing the mountain to bring him food, his wife slipped, fell and died. Overwhelmed by grief, Dashrath decided to carve out a path through the mountain, so that no one else would suffer his fate. 22 years, all by himself, with just a hammer and chisel, he chipped away at the rocks, till a path was carved out of the mountain. An inspiring story about the triumph of human will.
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Pankaj Tripathy, Gaurav Dwivedi, Ashraful Haq, Prashant Narayanan, Varadraj Swami, Ajay Aarya, Trushant Ingle, Brahma Mishra, Sulekha Rani, Rachna Shah |
