DOCUMENTARY REVIEW & RESEARCH ON ABSOLUTE LIABILITY

Abstract

One Night in Bhopal, one of the best drama - documentary film in the world was released in the year December 2004. This documentary was Directed as well as Produced by STEVE CONDIE, which shows about the world’s most devastating industrial disaster, which claimed the lives of thousands of people and exposed thousands more to the poisonous gas Methyl Isocyanate (MIC), ‘BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY’. The Executive Producer and was Writer of ‘One Night in Bhopal’ was PAUL WOOLWICH and AVIE LUTHRA, whereas the film is a somber and dramatic re-enactment of that fateful night. It traces the lives of several survivors and it tells the story of the world’s worst industrial disaster through the eyes of those who lived through it. The five main characters of the film were; Shahid, a much-loved eight-year-old boy, lost both his parents to the silent killer that descended on the sleeping city. Kum Kum, a young medical graduate, joined Union Carbide in the belief that it represented his country’s future, only to quit when he realised that the company were courting disaster. Suman, a technician in the plant, struggled valiantly to control the runaway reaction that was turning liquid chemicals into poisonous gases. Swaraj, Bhopal’s youthful chief of Police, organised the shocked city’s response to the disaster despite the fact that he had suffered extensive exposure to the gas himself. D K Satpathy, the city’s pathologist, had the unenviable task of examining the dead and dying – it was he who discovered that the inhabitants of Bhopal had been subjected to some of the most toxic substances known to man.