Manjhi: The Mountain Man is a 2015 Indian biographical drama that chronicles the extraordinary life of , a man from a small village in Bihar who single-handedly carved a path through a mountain using only a hammer and chisel. Directed by Ketan Mehta , the film stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the titular role and Radhika Apte as his wife, Phaguniya. The Real-Life Inspiration: Dashrath Manjhi
In the annals of human endurance, there are stories of armies building roads and governments funding infrastructure. And then there is the story of Dashrath Manjhi—a landless, illiterate laborer from the lowest rung of India’s caste hierarchy—who, armed with little more than a chisel, a hammer, and a bottomless well of grief, single-handedly carved a path through a mountain. manjhi: the mountain man