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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.
After he returned to Gehlaur, Manjhi became an agricultural labourer. In 1959, Manjhi's wife Falguni Devi was badly injured and died because she fell from the mountain and the nearest town with a doctor was 90 km (56 mi) away. Some reports say she was injured while walking along a narrow path across the rocky ridge to bring water or lunch to Manjhi, who had to work away from the village at a location south of the ridge;[4][3][10] other reports link the path across the ridge to the delayed care but not to Falguni Devi's injuries.[11]
For decades, the perilous terrain that had taken his wife had also divided local settlements from essential services, so Manjhi took matters into his own hands. Over the next 22 years, he handcarved a safer path through the mountains.
For 22 years, Manjhi worked to make a safer road through the mountains. He burned firewood on the rocky terrain and splashed the heated surface with water to chisel away at the cracked boulders and turn them into rubble.
People laughed and made fun of him but he just continued with his work for 22 years. This was Dashrath Manjhi, famously known as the Mountain Man who single-handedly carved a path through a mountain. He gave 22 years of his life to his village and made a difference in the lives of the people of this small village in the state of Bihar.
Using only a hammer and chisel, Dashrath Manjhi, a landless farmer, carved a path through a mountain in the Gehlour Hills, Bihar just so that his village could have easier access to medical facilities. Directed by Ketan Mehta, Manjhi - The Mountain Man, is an upcoming documentary on the life of this man.
Let's inspire ourselves to do the impossible and read some facts about the Mountain Man:
- The villagers had to travel 70 kilometres to reach to the nearest town to get medical attention
- In the year 1959, Dashrath Manjhi's wife Falguni Devi died from lack of medical care
- In the memory of his wife, he carved the path in the Gehlour hills so that his village could have easier access to medical attention
- He worked day and night for 22 years and broke down the hill
- The path is 360 foot long and 25 foot deep.
- He shortened the distance from 70 kilometres to just one kilometre
- He worked from 1960 to 1982
- For his achievement, Manjhi became popularly known as the 'Mountain Man'
- He died on August 17, 2007 at the age of 73, while suffering from gall bladder cancer
- To honour his achievements, a hospital in his name is also proposed for serving the villagers
- He was called the poor man's Shah Jahan by filmmaker Ketan Mehta who has also made a documentary on his life
- His name was also proposed by the Bihar government for the Padma Shri award in 2006
- When a movie on his life was announced, Manjhi was on his deathbed. He put his thumb impression on an agreement and gave away "exclusive rights" to make a film on his life
- The mountain man was given a state funeral by the Government of Bihar.
Nancy Churnin held a book signing at Barnes and Noble in Dallas for "Manjhi Moves a Mountain." The story is about a man who used a hammer and chisel to carve a path through a mountain that separated his poor village from the nearby village with schools and a hospital.
Me: One of my favorite illustrations is the scene where Manjhi stands on the top of the mountain which spans the gutter of the book. It not only divides the two villages, but it divides the two pages! That is genius! Was that intentional? Can you talk about that choice?
Thank you Danny for sharing your process with us and talking about the mountains you conquered both in your illustrations with Manjhi and in the process itself. Thank you Nancy for bringing this amazing story to us. Manjhi is the inspiration I really need right now.
Dashrath Manjhi used a hammer and chisel, grit, determination, and twenty years to carve a path through the mountain separating his poor village from the nearby village with schools, markets, and a hospital. Manjhi Moves a Mountain shows how everyone can make a difference if their heart is big enough.
The ordinary man remained ordinary until he lost his wife in a tragic incident. It was 1959 when his wife got severely injured and died after falling from the mountain in the nearest town. Notably, the hills had a tight grip on Gehlor village, restricting ease of transportation due to the unavailability of roads.
When she met with an accident, she could have been saved if there was a road between the mountains. According to reports, the villagers had to travel hundreds of kilometres to reach nearby villages and districts due to the gigantic mountains.
After his wife's demise, Manjhi was filled with anger and grief, leading him to carve a path in the mountain, too, single-handedly. He did so to provide ease of transportation to the villagers and to ensure that no one died due to a lack of medical care.
People laughed at him when he started the work, but he continued with his work for 22 years. Using only a chisel and a hammer, a landless farmer carved a path through a mountain. He passed away in 2007 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), leaving behind an inspiration for millions.
While working to make a way between mountains, he developed cancer in his gall bladder, which led to his death at AIIMS Delhi. In his honour, there is also a hospital in Gehlor, which is named after him.
There is another scene where Dashrath is bitten by a snake that finds its way out in the open after he has cut through half of the mountain. He staggers, cries out in pain and soon cuts out the thumb that was bitten. Thanks to Siddiqui's acting, you can actually feel the pain he must face at the moment and his determination to live on. This is undoubtedly the kind of performance where you can say that Siddiqui deserves all the awards out there.
is also one of the most touching and inspiring love stories in Bollywood. Married in childhood, Dashrath and Faguniya hardly spent four-five years together before she dies. The bond that the duo develops during that short period can be clearly seen as the reason behind the 22-year-long struggle Dashrath undertakes to ensure that no one else dies the way his wife did. Mehta, too, has brought out that romance perfectly. Every time Dashrath is about to lose his patience, Falguniya's spirit appears and reminds him why he needs to do it, charging him up all over again. And, when the villagers are celebrating after he has cut away the mountain, Dashrath sees Faguniya once again dancing along the others in a colourful attire.
For years, he was called a madman for toiling away on the rocks. But Dashrath Manjhi was not crazy. His quest to break a path through a small mountain to benefit the entire village is now legendary because he carved an entire road with hand tools, working for 22 years.
Manjhi started off his extraordinary task in 1960, after his wife was injured while trekking up the side of one of the rocky footpaths. To reach the nearest hospital, he had to travel around the mountains, some 70 kilometers.
The laborer from Gehlour Hills in Bihar, India wanted his people to have easier access to doctors, schools, and opportunity. Armed with only a sledge hammer, chisel, and crowbar, he single-handedly began carving a road through the 300-foot mountain that isolated his village from the nearest town.
Dashrath Manjhi and his beloved wife Faguniya Devi, ran away from their homes and got married. Mr. Manjhi started work in farms for day to day expenses. Life was full of love and joy between them before a black storm came and changed their whole life. In order to deliver lunch to Mr. Manjhi in farms, Faguniya have to cross a big mountain, on one black day she was on her way to deliver lunch before she got slipped from the mountain and died before reaching the hospital which was on the other side of the mountain and require approx. 70KM's of distance to travel by road. Faguniya Devi died on the way.
For a poor man in this country life is like mountain that he has to knock off daily to make the ends meet. Most surrender to the enormity of the task and take refuge in fate but Dashrath Manjhi takes the destiny head on. You could not leave it to God for He might have left this unfinished business for you. It is this subversion of popular belief that makes Manjhi the man of the moment for a generation that revels in being cynical. His motive may be personal, but his vision is universal.
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