Synopsis:

In the 1950''s Dashrath Manjhi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), lived in a small village Gehlaur near Gaya, Bihar, India. He was happy with his family and his wife Falguni Devi (Radhika Apte). In his village a rocky mountain because of which people had to travel round about for 75 KM to get access to medical care at the nearest town. One day Manjhi''s wife fell from the mountain. After this Manjhi decides to make a road on the mountain. When he started hammering the hill, people called him a lunatic but that steeled his resolve. After 22 years of effort, 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.