The lead actors of the short film — ‘Bhopal-A Prayer for Rain’ — will be here on Wednesday for a red carpet event and film premiere. Actors Rajpal Yadav and Tannishtha Chatterjee will attend the event at Cinepolis.
Notably, ‘Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain’ is a film based on the Bhopal gas tragedy that will be released on November 5.
It is an upcoming historical-drama film set amidst the real-life Bhopal disaster that had occurred in India on December 3, 1984. Starring Martin Sheen, Mischa Barton, Kal Penn, Fagun Thakrar, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Rajpal Yadav have been cast in the lead roles. Sahara Movie Studios and Rising Star Entertainment have produced the movie and have been committed to it since inception.
Director Ravi Kumar described it as ‘a dramatisation, inspired by real events’.
The film that depicts the shocking events, leading to the biggest man-made industrial disaster in history killing as many as 20,000 people in one night. The disaster has completed 30 years now.
The film is a narration of the story from Dilip’s perspective. Dilip (played by Rajpal Yadav), a rickshaw driver in Bhopal, India, lands himself a job at the Union Carbide plant.
The job is tough and risky with long hours, still everyone wants to hold on to their pay cheque and so Dilip keeps quiet when he notices managers at the plant ignoring safety standards. The negligence at Union Carbide led to the leakage of methyl isocyanide which killed thousands of people. Tens of thousands of people still suffer from illnesses caused by the exposure to this gas.