Review - The Railway Men - The Untold Story Of Bhopal 1984 ☁️☁️

Harshit Sethi

2024-11-21 21:37

The Railway Men: The Untold Story of Bhopal 1984 

is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language historical drama television miniseries about railway workers who saved many lives during the 1984 toxic gas leak at the chemical company Union Carbide India Limited's plant in Bhopal. It is produced by YRF Entertainment (the streaming division of Yash Raj Films) and stars R. Madhavan, Kay Kay Menon, Divyenndu and Babil Khan. Sunny Hinduja and Juhi Chawla Mehta play supporting roles.


• The Railway Men is based on railway workers who saved many lives during the 1984 gas tragedy at the chemical company Union Carbide India Limited's plant in Bhopal.The series is inspired by the efforts of station master Ghulam Dastagir and his team at the Bhopal Junction railway station on the night of the tragedy.


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MIC OUTBREAK


• The gas leak which took place in Bhopal was MIC i.e. Methyl Isocyante.

• MIC was the main toxicant in the Bhopal gas disaster, which killed thousands of people and caused permanent injuries. MIC is about twice as dense as air and tends to fall to the ground in open environments. 


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Star Cast


Main


• R. Madhavan as Rati Pandey,

the general manager of the Central Railway zone of the Indian railways.

• Kay Kay Menon as Iftekaar Siddiqui,

the station master of the Bhopal Junction railway station.

• Divyenndu as Balwant Yadav,

a robber masquerading as a police constable

Babil Khan as Imad Riaz, an inexperienced loco pilot.




Recurring


Sunny Hinduja as Jagmohan Kumawat,

a journalist.

Juhi Chawla Mehta as Rajeshwari Janglay,

a principled Railways Ministry bureaucrat, DG Personnel of Railways.


Dibyendu Bhattacharya as Kamruddin,

a manager at Union Carbide

Philip Rosch as Madsen, the American head of the plant

Denzil Smith as railway minister


Raghubir Yadav as a train guard


Mandira Bedi as Rajbir Kaur,a Sikh woman

Connor Keene as Alex Braun,

a German scientist

Sunita Rajwar as Vijaya,

a cleaning woman

Manish Wadhwa as Mirza

• Shrikant Verma as Ishwar Prasad


• Nivedita Bhargava as Imad's mother


• Annapurna Soni as Shazia, Ansari's widow

• Bhumika Dube as Nafisa, Kamruddin’s wife

• Thanu Khan as Markhand

• Aditya Shukla as Ratlu

• Priya Yadav as Sohini, Vijaya’s daughter

• Rahul Tewari as Benedict

• Mushtaq Khan as Railway Yard Man


The Union Carbide Factory does not tell anyone that it's their people fault instead they tell a lie to the higher authorities.


Conclusion 

• A fully powepacked mini webseries of 4 episodes which is full of drama , humanity and properly well designed with full depth .

• The climax of the series is a genuine masterpiece , that's why I am not revealing anything here .

• All of you must watch this webseries.


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