The Railway Men

Inspired by actual people and events, THE RAILWAY MEN: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BHOPAL 1984 focuses on a group of men who risked their lives to save thousands of people during the worst industrial disaster in global history. On December 2, 1984, water caused a storage tank at a Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant to leak, spreading deadly methylisocycanate gas from the factory grounds to the city of Bhopal and the surrounding areas. The station master of Bhopal Junction, Iftekaar Siddiqui (K.K. Menon), realizes that regardless of orders, he must stop scheduled trains from stopping at the station and help the people who were trapped on the platform. But communication has been cut, the Gorakhpur-Bombay Express was on its way, and people waiting on the platform were dying. Along with Rati Pandey (R. Madhavan), an Indian Railways general manager; Imad Riaz (Babil Khan), a new locomotive pilot and former UCIL employee; and Balwant Yadav (Divyendu Sharma), a dacoit (bandit) who makes his living committing robberies at train stations, he risks his life to prevent as much loss of life as possible, and to ensure that relief workers can make it in. Meanwhile, investigative journalist Jagmohan Kumawat (Sunny Hinduja) is doing what he can to call attention to Union Carbide's failure to prevent the disaster from happening.