A man spends twenty two years carving a road through a treacherous mountain by using only a hammer and a chisel. What a performance by Nawazuddin Siddiqui. A must watch movie. What could have been a bland boring representation of a real life story, Manjhi turns out to be just like his signature dialogue- "Shaandaar Zabardast Zindabad". Dashrath Manjhi's name needs to be carved out in history for his astonishing work of actually disintegrating a mountain to make a path in Bihar's Gehlor district. The film flows in a timeline where in we see Dashrath (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) growing up in a poverty stricken village post independence. The Zamindari system is headstrong in his village and even twenty years of freedom has not gotten them rid of their caste system and untouchability.
Review of Manjhi: The Mountain Man
Manjhi: The Mountain Man
(2015)
What a performance by Nawazuddin Siddiqui
20 August 2015
Warning: Spoilers