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From producer Deepak Nayer (Buena Vista Social Club, Lost Highway) comes this powerful drama about a newlywed couple whose lives are changed during the lethal gas tragedy in Bhopal, India in 1984. full summary | add synopsis
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(Credited cast)| Kay Kay Menon | ... | Verma | |
| Nethra Raghuraman | ... | Tara | |
| Zeenat Aman | ... | Zohrabai | |
| Vijay Raaz | ... | Badru | |
| Bert Thomas | ... | David | |
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| Jeff Davis | |||
| Dorinda Katz | ... | American Girl | |
| Naseeruddin Shah | ... | Bashir | |
| Chris Sullivan | ... | Maurice | |
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USA:100 min
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This film relates the real life chemical industrial accident of the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India in 1984. Known as the "Hiroshima" of such industrial tragedies, the gas that leaked from this badly constructed building killed thousands and is still the cause of many deaths every month.
For a first time director, 'Bhopal Express' is handled extremely well. Very little of the actual factory is shown early in the film. Instead, Mahesh Mathai allows the film time and space to build in emotion and intensity displaying a cinematic wisdom that will be exciting to watch grow. The acting is strong and believable and the cinematography, done by Mathai himself, is reminiscent of the graceful, fluent movements of the great Satyajit Ray. Although the ending suffers from a touch of sentimentality, it is almost deserved and allows the narrative to end rising, though not on what you would call a high note.