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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Revolver Entertainment
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Revolver Entertainment
  • 1 h 36 m

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 cheq...

Directed By: Ravi Kumar

Written By: David Brooks, Ravi Kumar

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Revolver Entertainment
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Revolver Entertainment
  • 1 h 36 m

Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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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 cheq...

Directed By: Ravi Kumar

Written By: David Brooks, Ravi Kumar

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
50
43% Positive
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43% Mixed
3 Reviews
14% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
50
43% Positive
3 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
14% Negative
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70
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.
By Martin Tsai FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 6, 2014
Arriving three decades after the fact, this docudrama doesn't quite do justice to its important subject.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
63
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.
By Bruce Ingram FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Stephanie Merry FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Steve Macfarlane FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 4, 2014
It's an unsolved mystery in Hollywood why so many based-on-true-life polemical films end up so unremarkable.
By Sam Weisberg FULL REVIEW
30
Nov 6, 2014
This is crudely mounted, earnest advocacy, getting its points across at any cost.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Rising Star Entertainment, Wardour Media Group, Sahara One Motion Pictures, Skyline Films
Release Date Nov 7, 2014
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline The world's deadliest industrial disaster
Website https://www.facebook.com/APrayerForRain?ref=hl
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Awards

Tokyo International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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