Netflix is ​​famous for its series, but high-quality alternative formats are also available on the platform. This applies to mini-series, such as Beckham or Tapie. Recently, this has been the case The Railway Men: the heroes of Bhopal offered in the catalog of American platforms, without anyone realizing it. Not yet, quality fine there.

The Railway Men: the heroes of Bhopal tell a story about one of the greatest industrial disasters that the world already knows. On the night of December 2 to 3, 1984, gas leak from the pesticide production factory belonging to the American group Union Carbide caused major chemical accidentwhere the city of Bhopal, India, is still not recovering.

Netflix miniseries about an industrial disaster in Bhopal, India

This gas leak originating from the Bhopal factory has occurred serious impact on humans and the environment. In total, 15,000 people died on the night of the crash or in the following days. Many people suffer serious consequences after these accidents.

Series The Railway Men: the heroes of Bhopal focuses on specific events in this tragedy: evacuation of residents from Bhopal. On the night of the disaster, a train stopped at the city station, Bhopal Junction. The deputy station manager, Gauri Shankar, director of Northern Railways, and investigative journalist, Rajkumar Keswani, all three, in their own ways, helped save many people. This mini-series is, in a way, a tribute to their bravery.

The gripping series is available on Netflix

Without the intervention of these people, the death toll associated with the industrial disaster in Bhopal could have been much greater than it was. Mini-series The Railway Men: the heroes of Bhopal such is their history and actions in fictional form. Since this is a mini-series, it is offered in a short format. In fact, it only lasts so long four hours.

But that doesn’t prevent it The Railway Men: the heroes of Bhopal is one of Netflix’s new features that shouldn’t be missed, as shown Allocated. It is used by Indian directors Shiv Rawail. As for the cast, the cast consists of well-known actors in India, R. Madhavan, Kay Kay Menon, Divyendu Sharma and Babil Khan. The latter is also the son of Irrfan Khan, a great Indian actor.

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In the Netflix mini-series category, I recommend “The Railway Men”

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This mini-series arrived several years later Chernobylanother series that caused a sensation lands on HBO in 2019. Director The Railway Men: the heroes of Bhopal also inspired by him. But this time, Netflix has instead moved its subscribers to India. Moreover, the new series well depicts the prevailing atmosphere at that time in Bhopal and the scandal that led to the gas leak from the Union Carbide factory.

This isn’t the first time a television production has been interested this disaster. In 2014, the film Bhopal: Prayer for Rain is also based on this industrial disaster. Several documentaries have also looked at this event and its consequences, such as Seconds from disaster in 2011.