1960 - GEHLORE VILLAGE,

BIHAR, INDIA

[THE
RATEATERS]

DASHRATH
MAJHI
A Moosahar
He was
married off as
a child.

Born in a
poor labourer's
home

Father
was a
drunkard

DASHRAT
H

PHAGUNIY Fathe
r
A

30 bottles of
liquor and 5
pigs as dowry.

RETURN
MY
MONEY.

MY LORD!
I dont have
money.
Take my
son
instead.

Now he will
pay your
debt.

I WONT GO.
MUKHIYA BEATS
KIDS.

MUKHIYA
JEE

We cant
climb the
mountain.

Let

4
MILES

WAZIRGU
NJ

THE M OUN TAIN

GEHLORE VILLAGE
There was no school. No hospital. No
road.

40
MILES

Nearest town Wazirgunj is just 4 MILES across the mountain. But one has to go 40
MILES around the mountain to reach the town. So many have died trying to
cross the mountain.

SHANDAAR!
JABARDAS
T!
JINDABAD!

Dashrath returns
to his village
Gehlore after 7
years.

He meets a girl at a fair on his way

to the village and is besotted with her.
Later, he comes to know that it's his
wife Phaguniya.
Run
Phaguniya
Run!
Catc
h
them
!

But Phaguniya's father arranges her second marriage

against her wishes. Dashrath elopes with her on the
day of marriage.

They begin
a happy
life
together.

...she
slips

One
day
she
crosses
the
mountain to bring
him his lunch and...

which eventually
leads to her
death.
and seriously
injures
herself...

Dashrath Majhi is deeply

disturbed and that very
night he decides to carve
a path through the
Gehlour mountain so that
the village could easily
access medical services.

YOU THINK
YOU ARE
TOO BIG?

After 2
years

TOO POWERFUL?

After 6
years...

A drought hits the village

and the villagers are
forced to leave.
But Majhi continues his
task undaunted.

WATCH HOW I
BREAK YOUR
ARROGANCE!

Hisss!

After 15
years...

YOUR GAME IS
OVER!

After 22 years...
Finally he was able to carve a path through a
360 ft long, 30 ft wide and 25 ft high mountain
using only a hammer and chisel. Dashrath shortened
travel between Gehlore and Wazirganj from 40
miles to 4 miles.

1934 2007

I DEDICATE THIS WORK TO THE REAL

MOUNTAIN MAN