LONDON - Two maverick filmmakers will hand out toxic bottled water from Bhopal, the site of a major industrial disaster in India, in London Monday to highlight the plight of locals and promote their new movie.

The Yes Men, whose new film "The Yes Men Fix The World" premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival in the United States, will also take some of the water to the headquarters of Dow Chemicals, owner of the plant involved in the disaster, just outside the capital.

The incident took place in 1984 when a storage tank at a pesticide plant run by Union Carbide - bought by Dow Chemicals in 1999 - leaked cyanide gas into the air in Bhopal, immediately killing more than 3,500 slum dwellers.

The US Congress has estimated that another 15,000 people have died since.

Dow has said that all liabilites were settled in 1989 and that it no longer operates the site.

Mike Bonanno, one of The Yes Men, told AFP that they wanted to get the message across that "the mess has still not been cleaned up".

He described the film as being like "Michael Moore crossed with Borat" adding that The Yes Men are "a couple of gonzo journalists who take on corporations on their own terms. It's a comedy, but it's serious."