Mumbai commuter blasts inspire Bollywood movie

A damaged train compartment hit by a bomb blast in Mumbai July 12, 2006.

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The bombing of Mumbai's commuter train network that killed 187 people last year has inspired a new Indian film.

Directed by Nishikant Kamat, "Mumbai Meri Jaan", will recount the death and devastation through the eyes of a female journalist, a witness to the carnage.

"The film is inspired from what happened during and after the blasts," said actress Soha Ali Khan, who plays the reporter.

"It not only tells the audience about the horror but also takes them into the aftermath of the tragedy. It is not gory in its presentation and has a humane angle to it."

Seven bombs went off within 15 minutes on packed commuter trains during the evening rush-hour in July last year, killing 186 people and one of the bombers.

Police say the attack was triggered by disaffected Indian Muslims at the behest of Pakistan-based Islamist militants.

Bollywood made a critically acclaimed film based on India's worst bombing, also in Mumbai, in 1993 in which 257 people were killed. But it failed at the box office.

"Mumbai Meri Jaan" is set to open in February.

(Reporting by Prithwish Ganguly, editing by Krittivas Mukherjee)