Manjhi- a personal review (2/5)

A good story spoiled by too many angles and issues to draw upon through a personified character. Manjhi reminded me of Kalidas as himself. A fool who stayed a fool throughout his life. Trying to save criminals of autocratic ventures, being thrown off the train just cause he was without ticket and money, suffering forgery from all corners of the state and the country and never protesting, if Dasharath Manjhi was such a simpleton, then he was lucky to survive the atrocities that life showers over a man. Being noble is one stuff, but being stupid is another. 

Well, Manjhi is a slow movie which tried to draw the entire crisis that brooded over a class of Indians back in the 50s to 90s period in Bihar and Nothern India. It may be true but half true because good men too existed not just as journalists but as officials of law and govt. too.
To be honest, none of the issues raised in the movie was ever elaborately discussed and Dasharath Manjhi seemed quite unmoved from scene after scene even after facing difficult situations. I think this is a wrong portrayal of a man who was called the Mountain Man. Yes mountain is tolerant and unmoved and above all petty businesses but when mountain is a Man, there has to be a life in the mountain. Manjhi failed to show me that life.

Its a tragedy without much of a humour. There was some laughter in the beginning of the film but it dried out with time. Yes, people have suffered, people are suffering and people would suffer, but instead of trying to eradicate these sufferings breathing within the man kind, Manjhi kept on carving a road out of a mountain! I mean his father and children almost starved to death and you don't care! That how a hypocrite behaves. And of all I believe Manjhi wasn't an hypocrite.

Well, actors who have hailed from theater and drama schools know how to act so needles to say I mustn't comment on that but I believe the director and the script writer tried to create too much drama into a story which was just a man's tragic tale filled with adamant rage towards the fact called DEATH. It finally turned into his daily routine of constructing a road out of a mountain and lastly it turned into his addiction and finally his life. Manjhi was a OK movie but nothing more than a sad man's lonely loveless saga.