Nawazuddin, Radhika Apte promote Manjhi The Mountain Man in Gujarat(video)

Ahmedabad

Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Radhika Apte, lead actor/actress of upcoming film Manjhi The Mountain Man were in Ahmedabad Gujarat today for promotion. They interacted with media, video of which is presented here.

The film

Manjhi The Mountain Man is an upcoming Indian biopic based film on the life of Dashrath Manjhi, popularly known as the ‘Mountain Man’, who lived in Gehlaur village, near Gaya, in Bihar.The film directed Ketan Mehta and produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, Maya Movies Pvt. Ltd. & NFDC. The film’s star cast Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Radhika Apte in the lead roles.The movie is based on the life of Dashrath Manjhi (Nawazuddin Siddique) who carved a road through a mountain in 22 years.The film’s schedule for release on 21 August 2015 in theaters.

Storyline

Dashrath Manjhi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) was living in a small village Gehlaur near Gaya Bihar. He was happy with his family and her wife was Phaguniya (Radhika Apte). In his village there was a mountain because of which people had to travel a lot to get to another place. One day Manjhi’s wife fell from the mountain. After this Manjhi decide to make a road on the mountain. When he started hammering the hill, people called him a lunatic but that steeled his resolve. He did a lot of struggle. After 22 years Dashrath Manjhi carved a path 360-foot-long through-cut, 25-foot-deep in places and 30-foot-wide to form a road. He died on 17 August 2007 due to cancer of gall bladder.

– DeshGujarat