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Interwoven stories of people in India and US as they face dilemmas of life time in the months leading to the biggest industrial disaster in human history that claimed 10,000 innocent lives within a few hours. Inspired by real events. Set in December 1984, the film is based on true events when a devastating pesticide leak in Madhya Pradesh, central India, killed thousands of people. Filmed in India, BHOPAL: A PRAYER FOR RAIN traces the lives of those living in Bhopal during the lead-up to what is still the world's biggest chemical disaster through to its tragic aftermath, which many feel has still not been addressed, and which continues to have a major impact on peoples' lives today. The victims of the Bhopal disaster have still, to this day, never received an official apology from the Indian or American government. (HBO Europe)
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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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