Emmy-winning creator Richie Mehta roped in for a series on Bhopal gas tragedy

Producer Ronnie Screwvala has teamed up with Richie Mehta, who as a creator scaled great heights by winning International Emmy for Delhi Crime series. The duo has come together for a series 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. Richie Mehta says, “The authors have done such a 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.”

He adds, “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 really important to get it out there in an impartial and extremely well-researched manner, which the authors have done.”