R Madhavan in ‘The Railway Men’
Yash Raj Films on Monday debuted the trailer for his or her maiden web-series manufacturing, The Railway Men.
Directed by debutant Shiv Rawail, the 4-episode collection is backdropped on the 1984 Bhopal gasoline leak tragedy and celebrates the ‘unsung heroes’ of The Indian Railways who rose to the dire event and saved a whole lot of lives.
On the evening of December 2, 1984, highly toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas escaped from the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, killing a whole lot of individuals and disabling and injuring many extra. In the trailer, we’re launched to a few workers of the Bhopal Junction station—a conscientious ticket inspector performed by Kay Kay Menon; Imad, a younger recruit, performed by Babil Khan; and a Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable performed by Divyenndu—earlier than tragedy strikes. Once the noxious leak takes place and begins to engulf your complete metropolis, our protagonists are pressured to carry collectively and save the assembled inhabitants on the station.
Dibyendu Bhattacharya performs an worker within the Union Carbide plant. We additionally meet R Madhavan because the General Manager the Central Railways, who’s dedicated to expediting rescue efforts. Another notable presence is Juhi Chawla as a involved energy dealer in Delhi.
The Bhopal Gas leak tragedy is taken into account by the Union of India because the world’s largest industrial catastrophe, with an official dying toll within the hundreds. In the trailer, a journalist reporting on the incident despairingly feedback that, on this world, we neither punish the killers of humanity nor have a good time its saviours.
The Railway Men is introduced by YRF Entertainment, the streaming content material arm of Yash Raj Films.
It will stream on Netflix from November 18.