MUMBAI: Filmmaker Richie Mehta, who helmed International Emmy Award-winning show ‘Delhi Crime’, will now direct a project based on Bhopal Gas Tragedy. RSVP movies shared, “We are delighted to have @RichieMehta onboard our screen-adaption of #DominiqueLapierre & @javiermoro123 ‘s book ‘Five Past Midnight in Bhopal’!”
Produced by RSVP and Ramesh Krishnamoorthy’s Global One Studios, the series is based on Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro’s 1997 book, “Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster,” detailing the disaster in 1984. “The authors have done such a precise and fascinating job of mapping out the human story which creates a thread all through this disaster and is told in an impartial manner, which is very important to me as a storyteller to step back and allow the viewer to fill in that judgment, and in the case of something like this very harsh judgment, of course,” shares Richie Mehta.
He added, “I think the fact that it happened in the 1980s, it is starting to evaporate from the collective consciousness of young people. Many people don’t even know about it or they hear rumours of it in India and certainly internationally. And so I feel like it’s important to get it out there in a well-researched manner, which the authors have done.”