Selfless determination empowers you to do the impossible. Way back in year 1960, residents of 25-house hamlet, ridiculed a weak young man, trying to chip solid rocks of a 300-feet-high hill all alone with a chisel.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Dashrath Manjhi
The Mountain Man Dashrath Manjhi
He made his way to the pantheon of romance by cutting through a mountain so that no other should suffer the fate of his beloved. This man was Dasrath Manjhi (1934-2007) now known as Mountain Man. His story goes like this he use to live with his wife in a mountain surrounded village of Gehlaur in the Gaya district of Bihar, India. One day his wife got sick and she died while going through the long 70km route around the peaks to the nearest doctor. He cried, and thought to make life easier for others so that no one dies because of this route delay.
On a morning of 1960, the 48 year old man alone started to dig the mountain to make a shorter path to the nearest town having a hospital. He worked hard day and night, he got mocked by villagers for doing an insanely impossible task. At last after stone breaking of 22 years he carved a 360ft long and 30ft wide path through a mountain in the Gehlour hills. This effort of Manjhi reduced the 70km distance to just 15km.
After filmmaker Ketan Mehta is bringing the life of Manjhi to the screen with a film called “Manjhi – The Mountain Man”. Now Aamir khan is all set to feature the story of Manjhi in opening episode of Satyamev Jayate Season 2014..
They don’t make men like him anymore, do they? The sheer courage leaves me spell bound!
I am so eager to see this movie …. Awesome trailer 🙂