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Manjhi – The Mountain Man

मांझी · 2015

Dashrath Manjhi carves a road through a Gehlaur hill with a hammer and chisel over twenty-two years, alone.

Director
Ketan Mehta
Year
2015
Genre
Biography · Drama
Cast
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte

Why it's in the canon

Nawazuddin Siddiqui carrying an entire film on obsession and grief.

Dashrath Manjhi carves a road through a Gehlaur hill with a hammer and chisel over twenty-two years, alone.

Manjhi – The Mountain Man sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.

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The essentials

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