The floods that hit India's western Mumbai in 2005 may have become a thing of the past, but the horror of that dreadful time still lives on in the memories of the people, and Bollywood director Kunal Deshmukh aims to bring alive that terror and the devastation through his forthcoming film 'Tum Mile'. Set against the backdrop of the fateful day on July 26, when the city was brought to halt by the deluge, the film delves into the happenings of that day and recreates them. The film revolves around the story of two persons who part ways and meet after six years in a flight back to Mumbai. How they get sucked into the catastrophe and are forced to stick together during the floods, forms the storyline of the film. The film was a traumatic experience to shoot as most of the people involved in 'Tum Mile' were in some way or other affected by the floods. I was also stuck in the floods on 26th July 2005. I was on SB road, so all the memories came back to me. Of course, what all incidents that we are showing in the film, I was never in such life threatening situations but I've heard a lot of stories. You people must also have memories. It was a very scary time for anyone in Mumbai at the time. A lot of people lost their lives, a lot of people lost their homes, Mumbai as a city lost so much money, so it is a traumatic film to shoot and relive, said Soha Ali Khan, one of the lead actors of the film. More than 1,000 people were killed, mostly by drowning or landslides, in floods that caused billions of dollars of damage and days of serious disruption after the region's worst day of monsoon rains on record on July 26.
