Uttarakhand tragedy on reels
Updated Feb 24, 2021, 12:03 am IST
Indian-American Hollywood producer Rashaana Shah’s Mulberry Films will put the stories of real-life heroes on the silver screen
Rashaana Shah
Natural and man-made disasters have always been an attractive subject for filmmakers. For almost half a century, films based on earthquakes, volcanos, cyclones, tornadoes and pandemics, apart from a host of other disasters, have kept audiences on the edge of their seats.
Bollywood reflected this global fascination for disaster movies, and made Kedarnath, Bhopal: A prayer for rain and other such films. The recent Uttarakhand tragedy, which claimed over 200 lives, is the latest to inspire a film.