Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain

Name: Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain
Genre: Drama, History
Released: November 7, 2014
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 50

2014

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Revolver Entertainment | Release Date: November 7, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: The world's deadliest industrial disaster occurred in Bhopal in 1984. Dilip (Rajpal Yadav), a rickshaw driver in Bhopal, India, lands himself a job at the Union Carbide plant. It is a chance to prove his worth to his family and pull them out of poverty. The job is tough with long hours; everyone is desperate to hold on to their pay chequeThe world's deadliest industrial disaster occurred in Bhopal in 1984. Dilip (Rajpal Yadav), a rickshaw driver in Bhopal, India, lands himself a job at the Union Carbide plant. It is a chance to prove his worth to his family and pull them out of poverty. The job is tough with long hours; everyone is desperate to hold on to their pay cheque and so Dilip keeps quiet when he notices managers at the plant ignoring safety standards. Dilip’s long time friend, Motwani (Kal Penn), a tabloid journalist knows that Bhopal residents complain of the constant stench in the air and wake up at night choking from the gas. He is on a mission to expose what he believes is a deadly time bomb ticking away in his home town. He feels as if no one will listen but when he meets feisty American journalist, Eva (Mischa Barton), he sees a ray of hope and persuades her to confront Carbide executive Warren Anderson (Martin Sheen).… Expand

Director: Ravi Kumar

Genre(s): Drama, History

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 96 min

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Martin Tsai

Nov 13, 2014

Through "Bhopal," the filmmaker argues that the promise of jobs and prosperity all too often trumps environmental and safety concerns, and it leads government to ignore corporate wrongdoing. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Nov 6, 2014

Arriving three decades after the fact, this docudrama doesn't quite do justice to its important subject. Read full review

Bruce Ingram

Nov 28, 2014

While Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain, an earnest account of the world’s worst industrial accident, certainly has its heart in the right place, it’s not good that the closing titles about the cold, brutal facts of the aftermath stir more outrage than the preceding docudrama. Read full review

Sam Weisberg

Nov 4, 2014

It's an unsolved mystery in Hollywood why so many based-on-true-life polemical films end up so unremarkable. Read full review

Stephanie Merry

Nov 25, 2014

Some of the portrayals are over-the-top in their villainy, and the dialogue, acting and music all tend to be melodramatic. But all of the overt heartstring-pulling doesn’t add much. Given the awful calamity, the truth would have been enough to amp up the emotions. Read full review

Steve Macfarlane

Nov 5, 2014

The film places its characters in a reflexive historical continuum that dooms them to be mere demonstrative types from start to finish. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Nov 6, 2014

This is crudely mounted, earnest advocacy, getting its points across at any cost. Read full review

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