A film starring top Hollywood actors that dramatises the Bhopal gas disaster has been criticised by campaigners and participants in the tragedy for misrepresenting individuals and the facts. Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain is due for release this autumn with Mischa Barton and Martin Sheen in leading roles. Shot largely in India, it portrays the events around the world’s worst industrial accident, in which clouds of toxic gas escaped from a chemical plant run by a part-owned subsidiary of American company Union Carbide. More than 8,000 people, mainly living in slums around the plant, died immediately when the gas leaked shortly after midnight on December 03, 1984. At least 25,000 others are estimated to have died over subsequent years and many more continue to suffer today. Continue reading…

Source: Guardian.co.uk