Directed by:
Ravi KumarScreenplay:
Ravi KumarComposer:
Benjamin WallfischCast:
Mischa Barton, Martin Sheen, Kal Penn, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Rajpal Yadav, Martin Brambach, Sophia Dawnay, Satish Kaushik, Manoj Joshi, Kailash Kher (more)VOD (1)
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On December 3rd, 1984, a Union Carbide pesticide leak killed more than 10,000 people in just a few hours in Bhopal, India. Based on true events, Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain chronicles the days leading up to the world's deadliest industrial disaster. While muckraking journalist Motwani (Kal Penn) investigates a suspicious accidental death at the plant, American Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson (Martin Sheen) faces plummeting profits despite the unregulated and ever-increasingly unsafe technology used by his Indian employees. (Revolver Entertainment)
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The film Bhopal: Prayer for Rain is not a great portrayal of the disaster that occurred in 1984 - again, the post-movie captions are a bit too heavy-handed. However, if you know what will follow, the film will feel tragically impactful to you. And, of course, it is tragic even without knowledge of the event. But the inevitability finally got to me.
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Until I saw the story from Bhopal, I’d thought that the worst industrial disaster was what happened at Chernobyl, but I was wrong. The worst industrial disaster had taken place a few years earlier in India. And the director Ravi Kumar didn’t fuck around while making a movie about the disaster. He shows both the positive and the negative sides and he managed to achieve a decent level of authenticity. I mean it sounds all very nice that an American company created jobs for many Indians in the middle of the country, where jobs are hard to come by, but at what cost? And where should we place the blame in such a case, right? It’s like a multinational developer setting up a branch in Congo, expecting everybody would become an economist overnight. I felt really sad about this attitude and the final scenes of this movie absolutely confirmed it all.
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