HBO's Chernobyl strikes a cord in India, leading to calls for a similar miniseries on the 1984 Bhophal disaster

The Hollywood Reporter

The HBO miniseries has "sparked online discussion in India about one of the world's worst industrial disasters, the fatal gas leak at a pesticides plant in Bhopal in central India just a couple of years before the Soviet Union nuclear disaster, and how it also deserves the TV drama treatment," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Indian viewers have drawn parallels between Chernobyl and Bhophal since both man-made disasters seemed to be the result of negligence and state-level mismanagement. "I reckon writers, directors and producers in India are already Googling ‘Bhopal Gas Tragedy’ after seeing the great reviews #Chernobyl is receiving," tweeted author and screenwriter Bilal Siddiqi, whose spy thriller novel The Bard of Blood is being turned into a Netflix series.