Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain
2014 · Movie · 103 min · ★ 6.3 · 61% critics
Based on the Bhopal industrial disaster, this drama follows a community living in the shadow of a pesticide plant as economic need, ignored warnings, and repeated safety oversights build toward catastrophe. It explores how corporate priorities and local pressures collide, leaving lasting human and environmental consequences that still echo decades later.
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Details
- Original title
- A Prayer for Rain
- Years
- 2014
- Release date
- 2014-12-05
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Critic score
- 61/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (30 votes)
About
You may like this if you want a serious, fact-based drama about corporate negligence and its human cost, with a docu-drama feel and heavy themes; Not for you if you want light entertainment or a Chernobyl-style deep dive.
Pros: powerful real-life subject; rising tension; strong performances | Cons: uneven emotional connection; missing key context; some pacing drags
Cast & crew
Martin Sheen
as Warren Anderson
Mischa Barton
as Eva
Kal Penn
as Motwani
Rajpal Yadav
as Dilip
Tannishtha Chatterjee
as Leela
Joy Sengupta
as Roy
Lisa Dwan
as Marika
Satish Kaushik
as Chief Minister
Manoj Joshi
as Dr. Chandra
Martin Brambach
as Ted
Directed by Ravi Kumar