Gita Sahgal, who later produced "War Crimes File", said she first met Bergman when he was politically active in the relief work after the Bhopal disaster in India. Bergman first traveled from Birmingham, England, to Bhopal in March 1986 by bicycle as a charity to raise £5,000 for the victims of the disaster. While there, he became entangled in a legal dispute over the government's role in relief that "The Guardian" later dubbed "The Bergman Affair". Other organizations providing relief to the victims of the Bhopal disaster said they were harassed or prevented from being effective because of government intervention.