Loved it. But surely could have been a little shorter movie (movie length: almost 2 hours). Nawazuddin is unstoppable. No one could have carried this role better than he himself. The more you see him, the more you love him. Always.
This movie is based on a real story from 1960’s that happened in the village Gehlaur (Bihar). Villagers always took a detour to reach city for all essentials as there was a large mountain blocking this way. Dasharath Manjhi (our protagonist) lost his pregnant wife as she fell from this mountain while she was coming to him with his lunch at the field. Even though Manjhi and his friend took her to the hospital climbing the very same hill, she was declared brought dead. Manjhi took the task on to himself that he will build a road cutting this mountain so that no ever would go through what he and his wife went through.
The story is all about his struggle and how he lived through 22 years of stone cracking to make a road right through this mountain. Many played politics on him, everyone called him a lunatic, his own father could not live with his madness and abused him multiple times but he never lost hope, he kept on banging his hammer on to those stones. Even through a severe drought! The path was ready in 22 years (1982).
Nawazuddin was neat but the dialogues were neat-er and perfectly timed. Like when the reporter tells Manjhi that printing his own newspaper is very difficult, to which Manjhi replies, is it difficult that cutting a mountain?
Another example is when Manjhi says, ‘Do not depend on God, you never know he might be depending on you!’
Watch it for Nawazuddin, if you have not already do it.