| Manjhi – The Mountain Man | |
| Director: | Ketan Mehta |
| Producer: | Bilal Khan Deepa Sahi |
| Music: | Sandesh Shandilya Hitesh Sonik |
| Cinematography: | Rajiv Jain[1] |
| Editing: | Pratik Chitalia[2] |
| Studio: | Viacom 18 Motion Pictures NFDC Maya Movies |
| Distributor: | Viacom 18 Motion Pictures |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Hindi |
| Gross: | 50 weeks[3] |
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 the web on 10 August 2015.[9] The Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) cyber police station had registered a case against few accused of leaking the movie.[10] The Bihar State Government declared the film tax-free on 30 July 2015.[11]
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.
| Manjhi – The Mountain Man | |
| Type: | Soundtrack |
| Artist: | Sandesh Shandilya, Hitesh Sonik |
| Genre: | Feature film soundtrack |
| Label: | Zee Music Company |
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.[14] Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave the film 3 stars. Meena Iyer of Times of India gave it 3 stars.[15] Bollywood Hungama gave it 2.5 stars.[16] Shubhra Gupta of Indian Express gave it two stars.[17]