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Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain Review
- 12/8/2014 7:32:17 AM
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Cast: Martin Sheen, Kal Penn, Mischa Barton, Rajpal Yadav, Tannishta ChatterjeeDirection: Ravi KumarGenre: DramaDuration: 1 hour 43 minutes
The film revisits the Bhopal gas tragedy of December 1984 that left around 3700 people dead and countless others, incapacitated for life.
Ravi Kumar and his co-writer David Brooks(seen in the film as Shane), who worked on the script for nearly five years, manage to touch a raw nerve with this film. This grim tale that recounts the story of the biggest human tragedy caused because of the lethal methyl isocyanate(MIC) leak from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal is compelling.
At the centre of the story is a rickshaw-puller, Dilip (Rajpal) who becomes a Carbider to save his family from starving. Naive to the callousness of the Yankees, who equate India to a third world country and for whom Indian lives are cheap, Dilip is happy to wear their uniform, shake their hand and do a job he is not qualified for. His immediate concerns are getting his younger sister married and pampering his wife Leela (Tannishta). And the actual perils of living surrounding by 40-tonne barrels of the poisonous MIC doesn't strike him or any of his impoverished factory co-workers till death comes calling.
However, Dilip's close friend Motwani (Kal Penn), a journalist with Gandhian values, starts a scathing attack on the American corporation through his newspaper, Voice Of Bhopal. He warns the locals about sleeping with the enemy.
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