AHMEDABAD: It's a rustic truth in our country - caste system and its battles. But here is a film, based on a human instance in Bihar, where an untouchable man wins a war for his community against the high caste - by moving a mountain, literally.
The story is based on a frail, landless Dasrath who gets hold of a chisel and a hammer and decides to change the face of his village, Gehol Ghati, nestled in the rocky hills of Gaya. He tear opens a 300-feet high hill to create a 600 feet long passage to Wazirganj. For many years, the Mushahars took a 54 km detour to Wazirganj. But Dasrath becomes determined to conquer the hill after he lost his wife to tuberculosis as he could not reach her to the nearby hospital in Wazirganj on time. He shifted his hut close to the hill so he could work all day and night, chipping away for the next 22 years, little by little. The passage reduced the distance to Wazirgunj from 54 km to seven kilometers.
Bollywood call for city filmmaker - Times of India
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City-based documentary filmmaker Ajit Pal Singh's feature film project on Dasrath Manjhi, the untouchable Mushahar from Gaya district, has now found a fan in film director-producer Anurag Kashyap, director of photography Shanker Raman of Peepli Live fame and a leading German film production company, The Rapid Eye Movie . Kashyap has agreed to co-produce his film.The story is based on a frail, landless Dasrath who gets hold of a chisel and a hammer and decides to change the face of his village, Gehol Ghati, nestled in the rocky hills of Gaya. He tear opens a 300-feet high hill to create a 600 feet long passage to Wazirganj. For many years, the Mushahars took a 54 km detour to Wazirganj. But Dasrath becomes determined to conquer the hill after he lost his wife to tuberculosis as he could not reach her to the nearby hospital in Wazirganj on time. He shifted his hut close to the hill so he could work all day and night, chipping away for the next 22 years, little by little. The passage reduced the distance to Wazirgunj from 54 km to seven kilometers.
Bollywood call for city filmmaker - Times of India
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