Irrfan Khan's Son's Babil To Star Alongside R Madhavan And Kay Kay Menon In YRF's Web Series

Irrfan Khan's?son Babil Khan hasn't yet made his debut but he has already bagged another great project. He will?star alongside R Madhavan, Kay Kay Menon and?Divyenndu Sharma in Yash Raj Films first OTT project titled The Railway Men.?

The Railway Men is touted as a tribute to the unsung heroes of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. YRF announced this project on the same day that this tragedy had struck Bhopal 37 years back. YRF's streaming content production business will be called YRF Entertainment and it will churn out five marquee projects, to begin within its first year.?

The web series is being directed by debutant Shiv Rawail, who is being mentored by Aditya Chopra. Shiv will start the proceedings at YRF Entertainment with his content-forward one-season limited series about the resilience of the human spirit in the face of disaster.

The shooting for the project will begin on Dec 1 and it will be released a year later on Dec 2, 2022.

Akshaye Widhani, Senior Vice President of Yash Raj Films said: "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 the 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."

Yogendra Mogre, Executive Producer at YRF Entertainment added: "The Railway Men is our salute to their spirit, their courage and their humanity. This is a story that needed to be told. We are not going to leave any stone unturned to ensure that this story reaches out to audiences, across the world, in the best possible way so that they can understand the depth of devastation that this tragedy has caused in India."?