It's to the directors' credit that they has gotten to a virtually forgotten area. Sometime in the 1980s People magazine staged a photograph of a local man frying an egg over one of the vents in the coal seam. ABC's Nightline also swooped in to a meeting of local residents and officials. But gradually the fire became old news.
Jharia has not met similar oblivion. Thanks to a group of activists and journalists--a group that the film is not much bothered with. It is concerned with the other aspect of the story--the technical fix churned out in labs in Munich. Significant no doubt but is that the whole story?