MUMBAI: The filming of producer Ravi Walia‘s Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain is fast progressing. The film is set amidst the real-life Bhopal disaster that had occurred in India on 2 and 3 December, 1984.

The film follows multiple characters‘ lives and dilemmas in the months leading to the 1984 Union Carbide industrial disaster in Bhopal, also known as Bhopal gas tragedy that was the biggest industrial disaster in human history that killed around 2,500 people in roughly two weeks starting the night of 3 December.

Recently, the producer signed character artiste Rajpal Yadav to play an important character in the film. The film has the actor playing the central character of a rickshaw puller whose life turns around as he gets a menial job at the Union Carbide factory. While working there, he watches the safety procedures being ignored and costs being cut. He feels loyal to his employers and keeps silent. But on the fateful night of the gas leak, he gets himself into a spot as the bosses refuse to take responsibility.

The film, directed by Ravi Kumar, also stars Martin Sheen, Mischa Barton, Kal Penn, Fagun Thakrar and Tannishtha Chatterjee in important roles.