A Prayer For Rain may soon release in UK/USA

Rising Star Entertainment and Percept Picture Company’s feature film A Prayer For Rain might soon get a UK/USA release with the makers currently in talks with distributors there. Having made several rounds in the festival circuit, the film, based on true events of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy that killed thousands, was a resounding success as the Closing Night Gala Film of the Asia House Pan-Asian Film Festival. The film follows the lives of multiple characters and their dilemmas in the months leading to the 1984 Union Carbide industrial disaster in Bhopal, better known as the Bhopal gas tragedy. This was the biggest industrial disaster in human history that killed around 2,500 people in roughly two weeks starting the night of 3 December 1984. At least 25,000 people are estimated to have died in the years after the disaster. The Indian director of the film Ravi Kumar, who also works as an NHS pediatrician and lives in west London, said they were currently in talks to get the film released in cinemas in the UK, USA and India. Originally titled as Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain, the filmmakers recently dropped Bhopal from the title to remove connotations of it being a documentary. It is said that Ravi had initially approached Irrfan Khan and Anil Kapoor for the role of journalist Motwani, but since they turned it down, he cast Kal Penn. The film also stars Martin Sheen, Mischa Barton, Fagun Thakrar, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Rajpal Yadav and Vineet Kumar among others.