Yash Raj Films or YRF has announced their first big OTT presentation titled ‘The Railway Men’. The series will be based on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy and stars R Madhavan, Kay Kay Menon, Divyendu and Babil Khan in the lead.

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According to YRF, the show will be ‘a tribute to the railway workers at Bhopal station who are the unsung heroes of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, the world’s biggest man-made industrial disaster.’ The Railway Men is being directed by debutant Shiv Rawail, who is the son of filmmaker Rahul Rawail. The show will start streaming from December 2022.

“The Bhopal Gas Tragedy is the world’s worst industrial disaster that has impacted scores of people since the tragedy struck the city 37 years ago. At YRF, we are constantly trying to develop the best compelling stories for audience and this is our tribute to the unsung heroes of the tragedy who, despite saving thousands of lives on that fateful day, are still unknown to people across the world,” said Akshaye Widhani of Yash Raj Films.

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On December 2, 1984, methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide factory owned by American Union Carbide Corporation in Bhopal. It has been reported that more than half a million people were poisoned that night and the official death toll exceeded 5,000.

R Madhavan’s next is ‘Decoupled’ with Surveen Chawla and ‘Rocketry’, in which he plays aerospace engineer, Nambi Narayanan. Kay Kay was last seen in the second season of ‘Special Ops’ and Divyendu is most famous for his work in ‘Mirzapur’.

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Babil will be seen in Clean Slate Productions’ ‘Qala’ with Tripti Dimrii.