Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in found The Railway Men to be a "compelling saga of ordinary heroism"; she particularly praised the production design by Rajat Poddar for his "remarkably faithful recreations" of the era.Read at source
The Railway Men 2023 
Synopsis
The Railway Men
The Railway Men: The Untold Story of Bhopal 1984 is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language historical disaster thriller television miniseries about railway workers who saved many lives during the 1984 toxic gas leak at the chemical company Union Carbide India Limited's plant in Bhopal. It is produced by YRF Entertainment (the streaming division of Yash Raj Films) and stars R. Madhavan, Kay Kay Menon, Divyenndu and Babil Khan. Sunny Hinduja and Juhi Chawla play supporting roles.
- Director
- Shiv Rawail
- Release
- 18 Nov 2023
- Studio
- YRF Television
- Run time
- 65 min
- Language
- Hindi
Reviews
4 Indian-media reviews, grouped by reception.
Critics' consensus
Generally Positive
Wikipedia-cited reviews for The Railway Men are generally positive overall across 4 collected excerpts. The cited excerpts do not provide enough numeric scores for an aggregate. Positive excerpts point to performances, visual craft, emotional impact.
Synthesized by AI (gpt-5-codex-keyless-enricher) from 4 source-backed reviews — verify against the linked sources.Common praise
- performances
- visual craft
- emotional impact
Positive 4
Sonil Dedhia of News18 considered it a "passionate, emotionally resonant, and incredibly moving" tale of under-appreciated heroes, but felt that too many subplots and backstories prevented it from being a "taut thriller".Read at source
Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV wrote, "The Railway Men is buoyed by a clutch of laudable performances and storytelling that does not slide below a certain level of competence.Read at source
The Indian Express's Shubhra Gupta termed it "a worthy effort, which brings back an expansive, old-fashioned style of storytelling to a still-relevant event", and particularly praised the performances of Kay Kay Menon and Babil Khan.Read at source
Media & trailers
Verified video records attached to this title.
Details
Soundtrack
- Nindiya Supriya Pathak, Atharv Bakshi
- Nindiya Ayushmann Khurrana
Technical specs
- Release date
- 18 Nov 2023
- Run time
- 65 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- IN
- Director
- Shiv Rawail
- Studio
- YRF Television
- Distributor
- Netflix
- Certificate
- TV-MA
Trivia
- The Railway Men is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language historical disaster thriller television miniseries produced by YRF Entertainment, the streaming division of Yash Raj Films.
- The series stars R. Madhavan, Kay Kay Menon, Divyenndu, and Babil Khan, with Sunny Hinduja and Juhi Chawla playing supporting roles.
- Filming for the miniseries began on 1 December 2021 and wrapped on 11 May 2022.
- The Railway Men marked the directorial debut of Shiv Rawail, who was previously an assistant director at Yash Raj Films.
- The series was released on Netflix on 18 November 2023, following a rejected plea by two former Union Carbide employees to prevent its release.
- The show is the first streaming fiction series produced by YRF Entertainment, a subdivision of Yash Raj Films.
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