‘Manjhi’ – the story of a man who conquered a mountain

‘Manjhi The Mountain Man’ movie is based on the true story of Dashrath Manjhi, also known as the ‘The Mountain Man’. He had, single-handedly, carved a path through a 360-foot-long, 30-foot-wide and 25-foot-high hillock using only a hammer and chisel.
It took him 22 years to complete the task and shorten the travel time between Atri and Wazirganj blocks of Gaya town from 55 kilometers to 15 kilometers and he did it because he did not want anyone to die as his wife did, while fetching water.
This has been reported in financialexpress.com dated 21 August 2015.

He was a poor laborer in Gehlaur village, near Gaya in Bihar and was born in 1934 and died in 2007.
The story revolves around the remote village of Gehlaur which is cut off from the rest of the world by a mountain range. It is the love story of Manjhi, which is essayed by actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Phalguniya, a role played by actress Radhika Apte.
It seems one day a pregnant Phalguniya was carrying food for Manjhi on a mountain when she slipped and fell to her death – the yet-to-be-born child survived. That is when he decided to carve a path through the mountain so that nobody else faces the same tragedy he did.
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