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Black Friday is a 2004 Indian crime drama film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap based on Black Friday – The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts, a book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings. The film's creative consultant, Chandramohan Puppala, attempted to recreate those events and the ...
Based on‎: ‎Black Friday; by ‎Hussain Zaidi
Box office‎: ‎₹8 crore (US$1.2 million)
Release date‎: ‎13 August 2004 (‎Locarno‎); 9 Fe...
Budget‎: ‎₹6.5 crore (US$1.0 million)
 
  Black Friday is a 2004 Indian crime drama film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap based on Black Friday – The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts, a book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings.[2][3] The film's creative consultant, Chandramohan Puppala, attempted to recreate those events and the intense feelings that followed them. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and was a nominee for the Best Film (Golden Leopard) award at the Locarno International Film Festival. The film was so controversial that the Indian Censor Board did not allow it to be released in India for three years and was finally released on 9 February 2007 after Supreme Court of India allowed it following the verdict in the '93 Bombay blast case was delivered by TADA court.[4][5][6]

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Plot

On 9 March 1993 a small-time thug, Gul Mohammed, is detained at the Nav Pada police station and confesses to a conspiracy underway to bomb major locations around the city. The police dismiss his confession and, three days later, Bombay is torn apart by a series of explosions leaving 257 dead and close to 1,400 injured. Investigators discover that the bombs were made of RDX, smuggled into the city with the aid of customs officials and the border police.
In turn, the film traces the motive for the blasts to the Bombay riots, the bloody warring between the Hindu and Muslim communities from December 1992 to January 1993, which left over 1500 people dead. The Bombay riots were an unprecedented outburst of violence and abuse, resulting in enormous emotional trauma and property loss. Tiger Memon (Pavan Malhotra) is an underworld don whose office is burnt to cinders during the riots. The suffering of the Muslim minorities in the riots incites a meeting of underworld leaders in Dubai, who then take it on themselves to seek retribution. Tiger Bhai (as Tiger Memon is called) one of the chief inflamed suggests an attack on Bombay as the strongest message of retaliation, thus leading to Black Friday 12 March 1993.
Asgar Muqadam, Tiger Memon's secretary is arrested on 14 March 1993. He is beaten till he provides whatever information he has about the bomb blasts and that initiates a full police inquiry. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Rakesh Maria (Kay Kay Menon) is put in charge of the case. The next piece in the puzzle is the arrest of Badshah Khan (Aditya Shrivastava), one of the henchmen who had left Bombay and gone into hiding, who was found by the police on 10 May 1993.
After the blast, the accomplices in the crime are forced to lead a life of anonymity and secrecy as it becomes evident that Mumbai police have started picking up the suspects one by one. To make matters worse, their passports seem to have been destroyed at the behest of Tiger Memon. In spite of assurances to the contrary, the high command blatantly refuses any help to them once the bombings have materialised. Tired of being let down by his own people and without a place to hide, Badshah Khan realises that there is no justification for his acts and decides to become a police witness. On 4 November 1993, the police file a charge sheet against 189 accused. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) takes over the case.
Then on 5 August 1994, Tiger's brother, Yaqub Memon, willingly turns himself in to the authorities. In a candid Newstrack interview on national television Yaqub states that it was Tiger and his underworld associates who orchestrated the conspiracy.

Cast

  • Kay Kay Menon as DCP Rakesh Maria
  • Aditya Srivastava as Badshah Khan
  • Pavan Malhotra as Tiger Memon
  • Kishor Kadam as Inspector Bhaskar Dangle
  • Zakir Hussain as Inspector Nandakumar Chaugule
  • Imtiaz Ali as Yakub Memon
  • Pankaj Jha as Anwar Theba
  • Pratima Kazmi as Mrs. Khan, Badshah's mother
  • Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Asgar Mukadam (as Nawazuddin)
  • Pranay Narayan as Imtiaz Gawate
  • Vijay Maurya as Dawood Ibrahim
  • Dibyendu Bhattacharya as Yeda Yakub
  • Pranay Narayan as Imtiaz Ghavate
  • Gajraj Rao as Dawood Phanse
  • Prakash Jais as Farooq Pawle
  • Raj Arjun as Nasir Deklu
  • Ragesh Asthana as Mohammad Dossa
  • Sushovan Banerjee as Abhay Zarapkar
  • Asif Basra as Shanawaz Qureshi
  • Aditya Bhattacharya as Sheikh Aziz
  • Uday Chandra as Old Neighbour at Al Hussaini
  • Raj Singh Chaudhary as Mushtaq Tarani (as Raja Choudhary)
  • Aliya Curmally as Shabana Memon
  • Suresh Dubey as Sabir
  • Sanjay Gandhi as DCP K.L. Bishnoi
  • Bharat Ganeshpure as Bomb Squad member
  • Manoj Goyal as Qullu Mohammed Khan
  • Ashraful Haque as Bashir Khan
  • Milind Inamdar as Mohamed Iqbal
  • Ravi Kale as Sawant
  • Arbaaz Ali Khan as Javed Chikna
  • Sarfaraz Khan as Taxi Driver at Princess Street Flyover
  • Ashok Lokhande as Sub-Inspector at Nav Pada Police Station
  • Loveleen Mishra as Newstrack Interviewer
  • Arindam Mitra as M.V. Ramani
  • Bobby Parvez as Rakesh Khurana
  • Sharad Ponkshe as Anup Patnaik
  • Ajai Rohilla as R.K. Singh
  • Sujata Sehgal as Mafeesa Khan
  • Happy Sharma as Sardar Khan
  • Murli Sharma as Inspector Virendra Vani
  • Jeetendra Shastri as Salim Phansopkar
  • Goutam Maitra as Tainur
  • Raju Shrestha as Parvez Shaikh
  • Savi Sidhu as A.S. Samra
  • Suresh Singh as Majid Khan
  • Sachin Suvarna as Shoaib Ghansore
  • Irshaad as Piloo Khan
  • Shamim Chacha as Dada bhai Parker
  • Gani as Rahim Laundrywala
  • Parveen Sheikh as Rape victim
  • Anil Yadav as Dawood Jatt's gangster

Production

Kashyap's directorial debut film Paanch ran into censor trouble and got shelved. After wards, Arindam Mitra from Mid Day approached him with the book Black Friday – The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts based on the 1993 Bombay bombings, written by Hussain Zaidi, who was their chief crime correspondent.[7] He wanted Kashyap to write a television series based on it for Aaj Tak, which was to be directed by Aditya Bhattacharya.[8] Kashyap read the unedited version of the book, which was not released at that point and was "fascinated" by it.[8] He wrote the script in episodes for the mini series but later felt that it would suit better as a feature film.[8] Later, Aaj Tak backed off from the project after their officials read the first episode of it, resulting in the project to be abandoned.[8] He told Bhattacharya to make it into a film, which he then offered to Kashyap to direct.[8] The book was written after three years of research on the subject by Zaidi. Kashyap researched for one year and went to the court as part of the process to see how criminals look and how the court procedure works.[7] He then found out that the criminals looked very normal. He made his casting for the film based on that. The characters in the film are all real people including KK playing investigating officer Rakesh Maria, Pawan Malhotra as Tiger Memon and Aditya Srivastava as Badshah Khan, the police approver who held them crack the case.[7] Kashyap also read a book titled Voices, recommended by Zaidi, which included several testimonies of the people who were arrested to get their perspective.[8] He told Devashish Makhija, who was his assistant director on the film to do the research. Makhija described him the research material and Kashyap continued to write them, which resulted in the script to be completed in 36 hours.[8]
To recreate several locations in the films Kashyap watched the locations where the incident happened, and the actual footages from the government's Film Division and read all the newspapers regarding the incident and looked at press photographs.[7] The most challenging thing for the crew was to recreate 1993 when there were no cell phone or satellite television in India, as it was being shot in 2003. The film was shot on the streets of Mumbai to avoid all the modern cars as it could not be shot from low angles because all the hoardings and neon signs were of the current time. The crew had to make sure that the mobile telephones are not visible in the film.[7] Kashyap said in an interview that he needed the city, and also had to "trim" it: "I somehow managed it. I shot mostly from the top angle and focused on my characters. There was a lot of guerrilla type shooting where nobody in the city came to know-we shot with hidden cameras. The police was supportive, Mid Day was at the job for permissions and all those things."[7] The famous chase sequence in the film was improvised.[9] Kashyap shot the film without permission on real locations.[8] Dawood's house in the film was shot on three different locations: Dubai, Lonavala and somewhere else.[8] Due to the low budget of the film, the crew slept inside buses at night, shot the film in day time and moved to the next location.[8] The blasts are believed were organised as retaliation for the Bombay riots which left over 300 people dead and more than 1500 people injured.

Release

The film was not released in Indian theatres for two years as, on the eve of its release, a petition seeking a stay was filed by the people named in the film, the alleged perpetrators of the crime. Since the verdict was still pending for the 1993 case, they argued that the film would bias public opinion against them and affect the court's decision, an argument that was ultimately upheld by the court.[10][11]
The film was received rapturously at previews in India and abroad. It was released in the United Kingdom in 2006 and was finally given the go ahead by the Supreme Court for release in India on 9 February 2007, after the accused had been charged with Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, which carries a maximum sentence of death.
British director Danny Boyle has cited Black Friday as an inspiration for his 2008 award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. Boyle stated that a chase in one of the opening scenes of Slumdog Millionaire was based on a "12-minute police chase through the crowded Dharavi slum" in Black Friday.[12][13]

Soundtrack

Black Friday's soundtrack and background score was composed by Indian Ocean and the lyrics were written by Piyush Mishra. This was Indian Ocean's first film soundtrack; it has nine tracks – three songs and six instrumentals. The song "Bandeh" became immensely popular and reached No. 2 on the film charts. The music was well received by critics and the album was declared a "must buy." The score and soundtrack has been described as "haunting" and "goose bump[s]" inducing.

UK release

The film was released in the United Kingdom with 17 seconds of the cockfighting scenes deleted. Laws in the UK do not allow any film footage of actual animal cruelty that has been deliberately orchestrated by film-makers.[14]

Critical reception

The film has been appreciated by critics all over the world. Black Friday has an 86% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[15]
Matt Zoller Seitz of the New York Times described it as "epic and raw, and cut out from the same bloody cloth as Salvador and Munich.[16] Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter compares the film's "journalistic inquiry into cataclysmic social and political events" to that of Gillo Pontecorvo's classic The Battle of Algiers. He remarks that the film is without any lurid sensationalism and is objective.[17]
David Chute of LA Weekly described it as "a rigorously naturalistic docudrama about a complex police investigation." Ethan Alter of Film Journal International describes it as a "potent reminder that Indian filmmaking isn't limited to Bollywood super-productions." According to Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide's Movie Guide, "its assertion that religious terrorism is about more than simply faith is food for thought." According to Ted Murphy of Murphy's Movie Reviews, "Kashyap keeps the action moving and the overall movie turns out to be engrossing."[15]
Black Friday received overwhelmingly positive reviews from Indian critics. The film is widely considered to be director Anurag Kashyap's masterpiece.
Rajeev Masand gave it 4/5 stars and said "The actual blast scenes are shot in such a languid style, exactly the way a bystander would have experienced it. Believe me, no film yet has brought me so close to giving it a five out of five rating, but because it's just a little short of true greatness, I'm going to go with four of five for Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday. This is the kind of film to send to the Oscars."
Taran Adarsh gave it 4/5 stars and said "Some films leave you stunned and speechless with sheer power. BLACK FRIDAY, directed by Anurag Kashyap, is one such film. On the whole, BLACK FRIDAY is an outstanding piece of work. One of the finest products to come out of Mumbai, this one is a hard-hitting film that has the courage to say what it says. Do yourself a favor: Watch BLACK FRIDAY. Hindi cinema at its best."[18]
Nihil Kumar from Apun Ka Choice said, "Taking least possible cinematic liberty and retaining objectivity throughout the film, Anurag Kashyap tells a compelling and disturbing story in ‘Black Friday’. Strongly Recommended." Sanjay Ram from Business Of Cinema said, "It simply states the point and that too in a very objective fashion." Khalid Mohamed from Hindustan Times said "The docu-drama structure is so skillfully employed that you’re gripped."
Nikhat Kazmi from The Times of India gave it 5/5 stars and said "It's powerful, pointed and hard-hitting cinema that needs to be seen. Not for entertainment, but for soch-vichar. And no, let's have no state, city, town, village, panchayat, self-appointed moral-political custodian acting as a super censor, this time please." Rediff said "There are moments in the second half when the filmmaker seems to lose the vice-like grip by which he holds viewers but that's excusable since the film has to stay within the framework of its reality theme."

Box-office

Black Friday grossed 70.1 million (US$1.1 million) in India.[19] The film grossed $35,000 in USA.[20]

Awards

The film was screened at the 57th Locarno International Film Festival on 13 August 2004 and was received with widespread praises. It was a nominee for the coveted Golden Leopard (Best Film), but the award went to the Italian Private.[21] Black Friday won the Grand Jury Prize at the 3rd Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles in April 2004.[22]
Black Friday was nominated for three Star Screen Awards in 2008 but did not win any of them.[23]

See also

References

Black Friday
Black friday banner.jpg
Black Friday banner
Directed by Anurag Kashyap
Produced by Arindam Mitra
Screenplay by Anurag Kashyap
Based on Black Friday
by Hussain Zaidi
Starring Kay Kay Menon
Pavan Malhotra
Aditya Shrivastava
Imtiaz Ali
Pratima Kazmi
Zakir Hussain
Music by Indian Ocean
Cinematography Natarajan Subramaniam
Edited by Aarti Bajaj
Production
company
Mid Day Multimedia Limited
Big Bang Pictures
Jhamu Sughand
Mirror Films
Distributed by Jhamu Sughand
Adlabs films
Release date
  • 13 August 2004 (Locarno)
  • 9 February 2007 (India)
Running time
167 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi
Urdu
Budget 6.5 crore (US$1.0 million)[1]
Box office 8 crore (US$1.2 million)[1]
 

Black Friday (2005) - Rotten Tomatoes

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Rating: 86% - ‎7 reviews
Feb 9, 2007 - Audience Reviews for Black Friday. I just could not get into this movie. I know this was a horrible event for the people of India, but this "docudrama" did not let me develop any emotion about the event, or the people involved. It is just an endless dialogue (3 hours) from the people who were supposedly ...

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'Black Friday is based on facts!' - Rediff.com

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'Black Friday is based on facts!' Patcy N | April 05, 2005. Anurag Kashyap Controversy seems to be Anurag Kashyap's middlename. His sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll cocktail of a directorial debut, Paanch, never made it to the marquee. His next movie, Black Friday, almost made it -- it even had a release date -- but was soon ...

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Jul 2, 2017 - The Black Friday case is an important case on free speech as it didn't censor the film in the sense of cutting out scenes but instead stopped the release in ... Black Friday case revisited: The story of why the courts (wrongly) delayed the movie's release ... Black Friday was set to be released in January 2005.

Black Friday case revisited: The story of why the courts (wrongly) delayed the movie’s release

Censorship in many ways is the ultimate culmination of paternalism. Dictation of what ideas a person may or may not imbibe by another person or entity strikes at the very root of one’s right to self-determination. And the funny thing is that it is mostly done for the ‘benefit’ of the person on whom the decision is imposed.
The Indian State loves to be paternalistic. It will govern every aspect of your life if given the chance. It will decide what you eat, what you drink, who you have sex with, and even how you should fly a kite. Increasingly it has also stepped into the business of dictating what ideas you may be exposed to. Whether it be movies, TV shows or the news media, the State will make sure that the infantile masses are kept safe from the evil that is independent thought.
The censorship of the kind mentioned above is generally on the basis of morality and obscenity. Sometimes the reason can be that of public order. However there is another reason for which an idea can be stopped from being disseminated. This reason saw its day in the sun when a gifted director by the name of Anurag Kashyap sought to recreate the events which took place around the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts.
Poster for Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday (007)
Poster for Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday (007)
Black Friday: The Shocking Truth Behind The '93 Bombay Blasts
ADVERTISINGThe movie was called Black Friday and was based on S Hussain Zaidi’s book Black Friday: The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts. It had Kay Kay Menon playing the role of DCP Rakesh Maria in an acting masterclass for the ages. The casting director took full advantage of the fact that none of the cast had to be conventionally good-looking and stuffed the movie full of talent, as actors like Pavan Malhotra, Aditya Srivastava, Gajraj Rao and Nawazuddin Siddiqui played important roles.
 Black Friday was set to be released in January 2005. At that time, the trial court hearing the bomb blast case had examined the evidence and heard the arguments. Its judgment was awaited. Also, after an application made by Mushtaq Moosa Tarani, one of the prime accused in the case along with 31 other undertrial prisoners, the phrase ‘true story’ had been removed from the promos.
 
 However — as detailed by Anuj Bhuwania in his working paper “Black Friday: Mediation and the Impossibility of Justice” — just a day before the release, Tarani filed a case in the Bombay High Court to stop the release until the trial court delivered its verdict. His argument was that since the movie predominantly shows the case of the prosecution, it will interfere with his right to a fair trial. He also felt that he would be defamed by the movie in addition to it amounting to contempt of court.
Bombay High Court’s judgment
The high court agreed with Tarani as it held that the movie would have ‘a prejudicial effect on fair administration of justice’. It stopped the release, screening and exhibition of the movie until the trial court judgment was delivered. The filmmakers went to the Supreme Court which kept the matter pending. This meant that the high court’s order of stopping the release held sway and the movie’s release was delayed till after the trial court’s judgment was pronounced. The movie was finally released on 9 February 2007, more than two years after its scheduled release date.
The Supreme Court’s actions (or lack thereof) are an early example of an approach it would go on to follow in the Aadhaar case wherein it simply refuses to hear certain matters. Gautam Bhatia has written about this doctrine of “judicial evasion” with great élan here and here.
Coming back to the Black Friday case though, the high court delivered its ruling based mainly on two arguments, those of Tarani’s right to a fair trial and that of his right against being defamed. They are two different rights and therefore should be treated as such. A reading of the judgment however, reveals that the high court ends up merging them while making its final decision.
Court cases are usually about a clash of rights between the parties. In this case, the primary clash was between Tarani’s right to a fair trial and the filmmakers’ right to freedom of speech and expression. The filmmakers’ right is pretty well established and it was up to the court to determine whether Tarani’s right was being infringed. It determined that this was indeed the case as it said:
“Therefore, petitioner apprehends that people at large would definitely form an opinion about his guilt. The verdict having yet to be pronounced by the Designated Court, permission to exhibit the film at this stage would definitely affect the course of justice. It is irrelevant and immaterial whether the Judge is actually prejudiced or influenced by the film.”
Was the right to fair trial actually affected?
It is here that the court fails to give cogent reasoning for its conclusion that the movie would affect the right to fair trial of the accused. The movie will undoubtedly influence the viewers and indeed that is the purpose of cinema. Many viewers would have made assumptions about the accused in the case after watching the movie. But none of that will have an effect on the trial for the simple reason that this was not a jury trial.
In other legal systems where jury trials are allowed, the jury members are instructed not to read newspapers and or see other media reports on the trial. In India, that is not the case because there is no jury. Interestingly, contrary to popular belief, the Nanavati case was not single-handedly responsible for killing off the jury system in India. But it did show us how juries could be affected by news reports.
In the present Indian legal system, a judge decides the outcome of a case. These judges are well-versed in law and have a “judicially trained” mind. As such it has to be presumed that the judges will not be influenced by media reports on the trial.
Let’s take the case of the specific trial court judge in the bomb blast case. He would have heard the case from the side of both the prosecution and defence. He would have had the opportunity to question the lawyers and the witnesses. He would have examined all the evidence present in the case. He would have heard the testimony of the police officers investigating the case. Is it then the understanding of the high court that the judge would be swayed by watching a movie which by its own admission represents the case of the prosecution? Such an understanding seems far-fetched to say the least.
If the court did however feel that movie could influence the judge then the logical thing would have been to ban him from watching the movie.
As far as the defamation argument is concerned, the court should have waited till after the movie was released to act on it. The Supreme Court as recently as January 2017 has accepted that there are no prior restraints on the media. The high court then laid down bad precedent as it allowed a petitioner to object to a movie which hadn’t been released yet. Is it then open to citizens to object to a movie after they see its trailer and decide that it defames them? Will the courts entertain every such case and watch a special screening of the movie as the high court did in this case?
Contempt of court
The court also felt that this was a case of contempt of court. This was based on the fact that the book — on which the movie was based — had acknowledged the assistance and support of the trial court judge during the research stage. Notably, the filmmakers, while admitting that the movie is based on the book, do not show the judge or the court at all in the movie. It would thus be assumed that the contempt, if any, would have been committed by the book’s author. However, the high court chalks up the contempt to the movie and this forms part of its reason to delay the release.
The operative paragraph of the judgment holds as follows:
“We, therefore, hold that the Petitioner has made out a case for the injunction that he has sought on the ground that the release of the film would constitute contempt of court and his defamation.”
In any case, the contempt argument does not hold much water in light of the fact that the court only deferred the release till the trial court judgment was delivered. If there was contempt, then the movie should have been banned indefinitely. Further the court should also have considered action against the judge who supported the book as that was seen as a problem. There is no evidence of that being done and the judge went on to pronounce judgment on the case.
Free speech and precedents
The Black Friday case is an important case on free speech as it didn't censor the film in the sense of cutting out scenes but instead stopped the release in order to ensure the right to fair trial of the accused. It laid down precedent on the media’s freedom when a trial is in progress.
The ruling was also a judgment about postponement orders at a time when the concept did not exist. In the 2012 Sahara case, the Supreme Court laid down the constitutional principle of postponement of the media’s publication of court proceedings. The court did not specifically mention the Black Friday case but the general principle it laid down is quite similar as it puts the right to fair trial above the freedom of speech and expression.
There is also a need to separate defamation from the right to free trial. A suit for defamation must come only after something has been published. Otherwise the judiciary stands on a slippery slope and could eventually end up banning all coverage of judicial matters as it can be argued that they all ‘influence’ the readers in one way or another.
Finally, in today’s age of instant gratification, delaying the release of a publication or a movie can have a great impact on how it performs with the reader/viewers. News in particular is extremely topical. In such a scenario, the courts have to tread very carefully while passing such orders. While the right to fair trial is an extremely important one, the judiciary needs to have faith in its judges that they will not be influenced by media reports (or movies) on the cases they are hearing.
In short, the paternalism needs to stop. For both the masses and the judges.

Published Date: Jul 02, 2017 10:11 AM | Updated Date: Jul 02, 2017 10:11 AM

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Action · Black Friday is a film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.
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Black Friday is a film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.

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Sushovan Banerjee ...
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Shanawaz Qureshi
Aditya Bhattacharya ...
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A dramatic presentation of the bomb blasts that rocked Bombay on March 12, 1993, displays the police investigation, amidst allegations of human rights violations, led by DCP Rakesh Maria, in tracking down the suspects, especially Bashir Khan. Bashir managed to elude authorities by re-locating to Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and West Bengal, after finally being apprehended in Bombay. His confession and subsequent flashbacks showcases the apathy shown by authorities who refused to intervene during the destruction of the sacred Babri Masjid by Hindu Kar Sevaks, and the inability of the police to fulfill their mandate and protect the vulnerable, forcing many to flee to other locations. The subsequent aftermath that succeeded in irreversibly polarizing communities in Bombay; Pakistan's involvement in training and arms' supplies; the main alleged suspects, Dawood Ibrahim, and Mushtaq Memon, sought refuge in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, while Indian politicians made a cosmetic move to ... Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
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Trivia

Anurag Kashyap also had a minor appearance towards the end of movie when Tiger Memon receives explosives and arms in boat in the night. See more »

Goofs

In the scene before the first blast at the Bombay Stock Exchange, one of the extras at the right of the screen is seen wearing a soccer jersey of the club Real Madrid which says "Beckham - 23". This is factually incorrect because Beckham only moved to Real Madrid in 2003, while the blasts occurred in 1993. See more »

Quotes

Badshah Khan: I want to go to Dubai!
Bashir Khan: But how'll you go without your Passsport?
Badshah Khan: Why? Anwar has everbody's Passports. Am I right Anwar? You have everybody's Passports, right?
Anwar Theba: I dont have anybody's Passport!
Badshah Khan: What? When we came back from Islamabad, you had kept everybody's Passports you crook!
Anwar Theba: Mind your language Badshah!
Badshah Khan: Okay, then where're the Passports?
Anwar Theba: I told you to maintain a civil language, Badshah! Don't you take that tone with me!
Badshah Khan: Alright, then tell me where are the Passports?
Anwar Theba: They're with Tiger bhai.
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The Brilliance of Indian Cinema
12 February 2007 | by See all my reviews
Mr. Anurag Kashyap,

Take a bow! Black Friday is sincerely the greatest piece of cinematic magic to be released ever. You and your team have produced cinema of the highest quality, raised the notch by a few miles and used this medium like never before, hats off to you sir!

I must admit that I am slightly biased toward your film because I have been born and brought up in Bombay and on March 12, 1993 (the day of the serial blasts) was just 8 years old. As Salman Rushdie famously calls children born during the era of Indian Independence as "Midnight Children", i would like to say we are but "Blast Children". Children whose innocence has been shattered mercilessly by the underworld and extremists from every religion and you have portrayed just that in your film.

The film does not hype terrorism or romanticize the darkness of Bombay or the coldness of its police like many other so called underworld films do but portrays exactly what happens in reality, the human side. Sir, your film has merged the very shady line between cinematic magic, fiction and reality to an intoxicating mix of actuality.

Pawan Malhotra (Tiger Memon), Kay Kay (Rakesh Maria) and Aditya Srivastava (Badhshah Khan) do not act, they live and breathe the very sentiments of these real life people. As a viewing audience I never once felt like I was watching a film, but felt like a 'fly on the wall' as the plot unfolds before your very eyes, the very same helplessness as Mumbaikars felt on that very day of the bomb blasts. The music by Indian Ocean is outstanding, it flows as easily as your reel does and blends so very brilliantly with the script.

The cold chill that trickles down your spine as Dawood Ibrahim is shown in his mansion in Dubai is breathtaking. The authenticity of Bombay and its various locations from fast food restaurants in Bandra to the passport office in Worli is worth many many accolades.

Mr. Kashyap, this film has struck the very chord of life in cinema once more. I'm sure everybody who watches it will share similar sentiments as I do. I am glad that the 2 year dustbin wait for your film did not deter you from eventually getting it released. You are not alone sir, the world supports your work with open arms. The silver screen is worth visiting again. Thank you sir and take a bow again..

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