Synopsis
Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the last half-century. It dramatises the dependence of the local community on the chemical plant that will eventually cause catastrophe, and the series of oversights that led to an event that stands as a benchmark for corporate irresponsibility in the developing world.
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Cast
- Martin SheenWarren Anderson
- Mischa BartonEva
- Kal PennMotwani
- Rajpal YadavDilip
- Tannishtha ChatterjeeLeela
- Joy SenguptaRoy
- Lisa DwanMarika
- Satish KaushikChief Minister
- Manoj JoshiDr. Chandra
- Martin BrambachTed
Recommandations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Arriving three decades after the fact, this docudrama doesn't quite do justice to its important subject. - 70
Los Angeles Times
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. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
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. - 50
Village Voice
It's an unsolved mystery in Hollywood why so many based-on-true-life polemical films end up so unremarkable. - 50
Slant Magazine
The film places its characters in a reflexive historical continuum that dooms them to be mere demonstrative types from start to finish. - 50
Washington Post
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. - 30
The New York Times
This is crudely mounted, earnest advocacy, getting its points across at any cost.
