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 [...]
Bhopal: Internationally acclaimed writer Dominique Lapierre, who co-authored the book “Five Past Midnight in Bhopal” about the deadly gas tragedy, Tuesday expressed hope that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will soon set up the Empowered Commission to look into the matter. Addressing a press conference on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas [...]
SEE MAHESH MATHAI’S CULT FILM ON DEMAND AT WWW.BHOPAL.FM Bhopal Express has won awards and become a cult movie among students and on the art film circuit, but has not yet reached mainstream audiences. It’s artistically uncompromising, eschewing the dozen songs with dance routines that might have made it a Bollywood success (Zeenat Aman’s singing [...]
Over 700 children including students from 11 schools participated today in the drawing and painting contest organized by the Sambhavna Trust Clinic. Children made drawings on the subject of the Union Carbide gas disaster or contamination of ground water due to Carbide’s toxic waste. Books and games were awarded to 17 children selected by three [...]
Inspired by the 19 year long struggle of Bhopal survivors, Blodsow — a 26-year old Chennai- based artist — has donated more than 25 paintings to an ICJB exhibition-cum-sale at Mumbai’s Hacienda Art Gallery, running for five days from 26th October. It’s hoped that the proceeds of the exhibition, which is entitled “Hope in the [...]
