Salman Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui at an event in Mumbai.
Superstar Salman Khan wished Nawazuddin Siddiqui and the team of
Manjhi- The Mountain Man luck and hoped that the movie becomes a "big hit".
Salman, who has also worked with the
Gangs of Wasseypur actor in films like
Kick (2014) and
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015), which minted over Rs 300 crores in India, took to microblogging site Twitter to wish the actor and the whole team good luck. (Also Read -
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He tweeted:
The film is a biopic on Dashrath Manjhi, a resident of Gehlaur village in Gaya district. The "Mountain Man", as he was fondly called, had single-handedly cut through a hill to make a road for his village. (Also Read -
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Directed by Ketan Mehta, the biopic also stars Radhika Apte.